Massachusetts, December 10, 1830.She spent all her life in the town of her birth. Daughter of Edward Dickenson, a legislator and a respected citizen of Amherst, Emily was educated at Amherst Academy and at Mount Holyoke Seminary. She did well in the study of literature and music. Although she was not pretty, she was a charming person to deal with. When she was about 25,Emily began to avoid other people, but in withdrawing from human relationship, she was free to let her imagination play upon the wonders of love, its joys and heartbreaks, and in withdrawing from Church, she expressed her spiritual relationship with God.
In her poetry Dickenson accepted the tradition of formal verse, but in combination of rarely more than four lines. She didn’t use regular rhythms and often neglected the rules of Grammar in order to create an unusual rhyme or thought. Her poems are filled with humor, with lovely ideas, and with wit.