Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one the finest poets that America has produced.
Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts to Edward Dickinson, an American politician and lawyer and Emily Norcross Dickinson, a homemaker.
Emily was an intensely private person and never wanted her poetry to be read. It was after her death in May 1886, that her sister Lavinia found her work and decided to get it published. In all she wrote nearly 1,800 poems, most of which were found sewn together in little booklets in her room. Emily used her poetry to express her feelings and make sense of the world around her. She had an unconventional style and made use of the extended metaphor to expand on a particular theme, such as in the poem, “Hope is the thing with Feathers” where the poet portrays hope as a bird that lives in the human soul.
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