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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson was a poet who lived much of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, rarely leaving her home…
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Hello! My name is Emily. I was born a long, long time ago, on December 10th, 1830. I lived in a big yellow house. My house had a beautiful garden. I loved to watch the busy bees buzz from flower to flower. I saw so many colorful flowers bloom. Everything I saw in my garden gave me wonderful ideas for my words.
I loved words so, so much. I wrote them down all the time. I wrote little poems about the bright sun in the sky. I wrote about the little birds that sang songs. I also wrote about all the feelings inside my heart. I was very shy, so I kept my poems a secret from everyone. I would write my words on small pieces of paper. Then, I would sew them together to make tiny little books. I hid my secret books in my room where nobody could find them.
I lived to be 55 years old. After I was gone, my sister, whose name was Lavinia, found my secret poems. In the year 1886, she found all my tiny books. Lavinia wanted to share my beautiful words with the whole world! Now, children and grown-ups everywhere can read my poems. They can think about the big, wonderful world, just like I did.
The Girl Who Wrote Secret Poems
Hello! My name is Emily. I was born a long, long time ago, on December 10th, 1830. I lived in a big yellow house. My house had a beautiful garden. I loved to watch the busy bees buzz from flower to flower. I saw so many colorful flowers bloom. Everything I saw in my garden gave me wonderful ideas for my words.
I loved words so, so much. I wrote them down all the time. I wrote little poems about the bright sun in the sky. I wrote about the little birds that sang songs. I also wrote about all the feelings inside my heart. I was very shy, so I kept my poems a secret from everyone. I would write my words on small pieces of paper. Then, I would sew them together to make tiny little books. I hid my secret books in my room where nobody could find them.
I lived to be 55 years old. After I was gone, my sister, whose name was Lavinia, found my secret poems. In the year 1886, she found all my tiny books. Lavinia wanted to share my beautiful words with the whole world! Now, children and grown-ups everywhere can read my poems. They can think about the big, wonderful world, just like I did.
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Emily Dickinson was a poet who lived much of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts, rarely leaving her home, but she maintained active correspondence and engaged with a select circle of friends and family. Her unique style and profound themes of nature, death, and immortality made her one of the most important figures in American poetry, though her work was largely unpublished during her lifetime.
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