Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
1830-1886
"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." Emily Dickinson was a compassionate, intelligent, and intuitive woman, characteristics all shown through her poetry, letters and epigrams written in her lifetime. Emily, Belle of Amherst, whose life formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry, is admired greatly for her contributions to literature and for opening the door for women in poetry, who were previously expected to limit their subjects to the domestic and the sentimental. Her humble ambience of timidity secluded her from proper recognition for her talent until after her death, when people around the world caught wind of her legacy and aptitude, soon becoming enraptured in her ability to capture emotion, thought, and beauty through poetic language like none before her.
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