Today this topic is about the English poet Emily Dickenson.
Compared with Walt Witman, whom we discussed last week, I found Emily Dickenson greatly different. She seems, in fact, to have been the complete opposite of Walt Whitman in her works. I would like to share briefly with the audience some interesting facts about her life.
Emily Dickenson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, barely a decade after Whitman. In her early 20's, for reasons that are still unclear, she began to withdraw from her ordinary contact with the world. For the remaining thirty years of her life, she was seldom seen outside her home. In this respect she was quite unlike Whitman, who loved the great outdoors. Emily Dickenson spent her solitary days writing to her friends and composing hundreds of remarkable poems, notable "I Heard a Fly Buzz", and the poem we read for today "I Am Nobody". Although she showed some of her poems to her family, and sent some in her letters to her friends, only four were published in her lifetime. Most of them, almost twelve hundred poems, were discovered in her room after she died in 1886 at the age of fifty-six. These poems have established her as a major poet, and several modern critics consider her the greatest woman poet in the English language.
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