Emily Dickinson lived an incredibly reclusive life. Despite the amount of time she spent alone, she wrote some of the most universally moving poetry in the American canon. No one knew how much Dickinson wrote until her death. Her family discovered almost 1800 poems in her bedroom.
selected poetry
Essential Questions
How do the circumstances of an artist's life influence his/her work?
How does an author's style affect the tone of his/her writing?
How can works of art capture the essence of a society?