Emily Dickinson was a great poetess who published little in her lifetime. She wrote nearly 1800 poems, but published less than a dozen of these while she was alive.
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830, in Massachusetts. She wore white clothes, and lived alone. Death, faith and deathlessness are the main themes of her poems. ‘The Chariot’, is one of her famous poems about death and immortality.
Dickinson used short lines, broken rhymes and peculiar comparisons in her poems. Many of her poems were untitled. She intentionally broke rules of capitalization and punctuation in her poems. Lavinia, her younger sister, discovered Dickinson’s poems after her death. Her poems have been available in print without a break since 1890.
Dickinson is widely regarded as one of the two leading 19th century American poets, along with Walt Whitman.
Emily Dickinson died on May 15th, 1886.
