Emily Dickinson
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When life restricts our flow of happiness with tragedy and heartbreak, another door is opened up. It is the door of creativity, of art, of flowing insights. And although for the individual this experience is void of smiles and full of tears, it provides the rest of us with a small glimpse into the inner self. Emily Dickinson's poetry is the symbolic keyhole to the depths of her tormented soul. Her despair seeped through in the form of poetry. Emily Dickinson's poetry was an expression of the isolation and seclusion she felt as a result of her relationships and deaths of family members and friends. "Home was always dear to me", Emily would write in letters to her brother (Steffens 13) . Emily was extremely close to her family, especially to her father. She had a brother, Austin, and a sister Lavinia. Emily Norcross Dickinson, Emily's mother, Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830...