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__ Biography __
====Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She wrote 1,700 poems in her lifetime although only a few were a few were published during her life. Her poems were about love, death, and her relationship with God. Emily Dickinson was not famous in her lifetime. It was not until her death that her sister Lavinia published her stories in 1890. Now Emily Dickinson is considered one of America's finest poets during the 19th-century.==== ====Emily Dickinson lived in a large house that was used as a meeting place for visitors. Her parents were know as the pillars of community. She was a bright student and well respected by her classmates. Emily Dickinson loved her father although he was harsh at times, he wanted to have his daughters well educated.==== ====Her father was Edward Dickinso. Emily had two siblings a younger sister named Lavinia and an older brother named Austin. Her parents raised her to be a good Christian. They did not want her mind to be messed up by reading but being a self driven person, Emily managed to read the books without chinging who she was being raised to be.==== ====Emily Dickinson did not leave her house much. She withdrew from all politics that her father was involed in. She did not let many people visit her. Emily lived in her father's house and only wore white, only traveling a couple of times to see a doctor about her eye problems.==== ====Emily never married although she had a few relationships with men. Her best friend because her sister-in-law by marrying her older brother Austin. Austing and his wife lived next door to the Dickinsons and were extremely close to them.==== ====In her last few years, Emily Dickinson wrote less than fifty poems because of her eye troubles. It did not help Emily that her father in 1874 and her mother died in 1882. This meant that Ms. Dickinson was running the whole house. Running the whole household did not leave Emily much time to write poetry. Then her health started to become a problem after the nervous fall in 1884. Ms. Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886. She was fifty-six years old at the time of her death.==== ||

Poetry links
> Home of Emily Dickinson ||
 * * [|Because I Could Not Stop For Death]
 * [|I Cannot Live Without You]
 * [|It Was Not Death]
 * [|Hope Is The Thing]
 * [|I'm Nobody] ||> [[image:450px-Emily_Dickinson_Homestead,_Amherst,_Massachusetts.JPG width="225" height="300"]]

Explication
Explication of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" [|Image from Wikipedia] ===This poem describes a conflict between the speaker and “death”. The speaker has some changes happening to him/her and he/she says that death is not responsible for it. “It was not death, for I stood up, And all dead lie down;” This stanza refers to how the speaker stands up while the others who received “death” still lie down since they were consumed by it except for the speaker. The setting is during the autumn season during noon of a day. The audience seems to be looking into the poem.=== ===“It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl,” This stanza explains that the reader is both warm and cool but she does not know why. “And yet it tasted like them all; the figures I have seen Set orderly, for burial, Reminded me of mine,” This stanza is the start of action for this poem since the reader is remembering her burial after she entered death. The speaker seems to be in a shadowy place where she is surrounded by life and death during the action. The speaker speaks in a quiet tone since she has much motivation to say that Death was not responsible for what is happening to her. Some imagery used in the poem is frosts and autumn mornings since frost describes death and the mornings describe light.=== ===Some significant symbols in the poem are chaos and despair. Chaos and despair both describe death but in different ways. Chaos describes death by power, insanity, and stops less strength. Despair describes death by sorrow, grief, and coolness. Probably the major theme of this poem is death and life since the reader describes how she feels both of them at the same time but cannot recall which one is it. This poem did achieve its purpose in saying that death was not responsible for the speaker’s wellness and behavior but mere sorrow was responsible.===