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===   Early Life ===  Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. When Emily was young she was very smart. She showed much interest in writing and was able to create stories that rhymed. She was brought up in a strict household because her father wanted to raise his children the "proper way." Emily was a excellent student at Amherst College studying different subjects like Latin and English Literature. But there was a problem with her learning; she became sick very often. When a constant cough developed, her father removed her from college and brought her home. Leaving college without her correct qualifications.  ==<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Poetry Years == <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Dickinson was introduced to the poet Emerson by one of her brothers friends, Benjamin Newton. He was one of the first people to see Emily's talent for poetry and encouraged her to write. Also she was said to have a good sense of humor, but since she was ill so often she seemed mad and irritated. A critic, Terence Higinson said that his meetings with her were tense, and that "he never was with anyone who drained my nerve power so much." Also he said that this "little plain woman was so ingenious, childlike and seemed very thoughtful of others." <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">  <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">   <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Since Dickinson was so uncomfortable and shy in social situations, she gradually reduced her friends and started going out of the society. In her late twenties she had led herself to almost complete seclusion, spending only time with her family in her house. Her sister said that this wasn't just a random decision but it was a gradual process that happened. Even though she physically secluded herself she still kept it contact with some by letters. Dickinson had no want to deal with politics; for example, when the Civil War began she made no comment and did not want to help with any war effort. The Dickinson family was greatly affected by close friends dying during the battle. Therefore, Emily wrote about it in many of her 1,700 poems. Another topic she wrote about seemed to be an "invisible lover," no one ever being able to figure out whom this was. But there was reason to suspect that it was Judge Otis Lord, a man who was highly respected in her community and much older than she was. She died at age 55 to Bight's disease, caused by kidney degeneration. Even though her life seemed sad and lonely, through some of her poems she did express joy and happiness that she found through life and nature. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;"> Discovery of her Poems
After Emily had died her sister Vinnie had been instructed to burn all of her letters. WHile doing so she came across a box filled with 1,700 poems. Vinnie ignored what she had been told and brought them to Mabel Todd whom then typed up 200 letters sending them off. Due to the encouragment of Newton, Dickinsons first edition was published in 1893.

Quotes
"Beauty is not caused. It is."

"Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell." ||

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Emily Dickinson Museum. Amherst, MA. ||
 * * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">[|I'm Nobody! Who are You?]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">[|Hope Is the Thing with Feathers]
 * [|It's All I Have to Bring Today]
 * [|Two Butterflies Went Out at Noon]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,255);">[|Fame is a Fickle Food] ||> [[image:dg.JPG]]

<span style="font-size: 22pt; color: rgb(255,0,87); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'STOMP_Dream Orphans';">Explication for <span style="font-size: 22pt; color: rgb(255,0,87); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'STOMP_Dream Orphans';">**"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"** <span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'STOMP_Dream Orphans';"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">  <span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'STOMP_Dream Orphans';"> <span style="font-size: 22pt; color: rgb(95,73,122); line-height: 115%; font-family: 'STOMP_Dream Orphans';"> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Emily Dickinson wrote the poem, **"I'm Nobody! Who are you?"** <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> Dickinson is telling the reader how joyless it is to be a "somebody," as she states in the second stanza, "How dreary - to be - somebody!" The author plainly says she is a nobody and asks, "Are you - nobody - too?" She assumes the person is one too. "Then there's a pair of us?" She asks. But Dickinson, for some reason, doesn't want anyone else to know; This would cause them to lose their //uniqueness.// To the reader's understanding, she would hate to have that attention towards her. "To tell one's name" is like a "frog" as it croaks "to an admired bog!" By this, the author means, just like a frog's croak, being known is a dreadful thing to all. She is telling all the readers being popular and noticed isn't all that great as it might appear to be. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> The poem has a rhythm of AABC; "you" and "too" rhyme within the first stanza. In the second stanza, the poem follows a pattern of DCEC since "frog" and "bog" rhyme. <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> This poem had a sense of imagery as I read through it. I could imagine Emily Dickinson talking to someone that didn't quite know the //rules// of being a "nobody." This person was confused why Emily had said they shouldn't tell anyone, but as she continued to explain, he or she understands that they would not enjoy the publicity of being a "somebody." <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';"> I think Dickinson stated her case well enough that the reader would understand what she is getting at. I don't think that I myself would enjoy being a nobody as much as she apparently did, but being someone isn't as bad as she claims it to be. I feel as if I have learned a new perspective from others who do not croak like a "frog" to the "admired bog." <span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">

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Sources: "Emily Dickinson Quotes." __Brainy Quotes__. 2008. 9 Dec. 2008 <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/emily_dickinson.html>.

Pettinger, T. "Emily Dickinson." __Biography Outline__. 26 June 2006. 9 Dec. 2008 <http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html>.