The Life Of Emily Dickinson

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people, and perhaps increased her interest in
death (Whicher 26).
Dressing in white every day Dickinson was know in Amherst as, “the New
England mystic,” by some. Her only contact to her few friends and
correspondents was through a series of letters, seen as some critics to be equal
not only in number to her poetic works, but in literary genius as well (Sewall
98).
Explored thoroughly in her works, death seems to be a dominating theme
through out Dickinson's life. Dickinson, although secluded and isolated had a
few encounters with love, two perhaps serious affairs were documented in her
letters and poems. But, since Emily's life was so self kept and private the
exact identity of these people remains unsure. What is known, is during the
Civil War , worried for her friends and families lives, death increased in
frequency to be a dominant theme in her writings. After 1878, the year of her
influential father's death, (a treasurer of Amherst college, and a member of the
Congress), ...

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