The speakers in Dickinsons poetry, like those in Bronts and Brownings works, are sharp-sighted

observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable
escapes. To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that
never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing
what was possible but not yet realized (Poetry foundation).

Andrzej (2011: 188)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is recognized as one of Americas finest and most original poets. She wrote
over 1,700 little poems which were published after her death. In revealing her inner experience
Dickinson anticipated the style of twentieth-century poetry, particularly in her use of ellipsis and
ambiguity. At the same time her poetry is astonishingly frank and direct.

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, a small Calvinist village in Massachusetts. Her father was a
successful lawyer. Except for a brief stay in a college and a trip to Washington, DC with her sister, she
lived all her life in seclusion in her parents home. Only seven of Dickinsons poems were published
during her lifetime, although none with her consent. Puritanism and Transcendentalism were major
influences in Dickinsons life. Her poetry reveals deep inspiration in nature, and an imaginistic
compressed style (as opposed to Whitmans style).