Solitude

Emily Dickinson shut herself off to everyone and the only way she contacted others is by letters. She stayed in her room. She only left the house unless it was absolutely necessary and she did not talk to anyone face to face, but only through the door. Dickinson became really popular for her letters that she wrote. She rolled up her poems and hid them in her walls. The person she wrote to she had only met twice and he said that she seemed reluctant even in his presence. Furthermore, Emily was able to be ahead of her time in writing, because she was locked up so much and had so much free time. Lastly, Dickinson was terminally ill in the summer of 1884 so she was confined to her bed.

- Solitude is the state of being or living alone.

- when Dickinson's father died she stopped going out in public. -She enjoys solitude - Dickinson herself had been afflicted for some time with her own illness affecting the kidneys, Bright’s Disease, symptoms of which include chronic pain and edema, which may have contributed to her seclusion from the outside world. - her poetry reflects her loneliness

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/ http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155 http://americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson