Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was born into a wealthy and Christian family. Her dad her dad was the senator of Massachusetts. She began writing around her teen age years but would become more invested in writing later in her 20s. Emily attended Amherst Academy school for girls, and later would got to college for botany, natural history, and astronomy at Mount Holyoke College. While she was alive only about 8 of her 800+ poems were ever published. Emily never married, or had children. she also did not have many friends, as she preferred to stay at home, then go out and be with people. Sadly, at the age of 55, Emily passed due to a stroke on May 15, 1886.

One of Dickinson’s most famous poems is “Hope is the thing with feathers.” In this poem, she symbolizes a bird as hope. She explains that hope should be like a bird singing. The poem goes on to say a bird never stops singing even through the harsh storms it flies through. Dickinson is trying to communicate that we should never lose hope. Like the bird who sings through storms, we should have hope in our storms in life, instead of giving up.

One quote that really stood out to me is from the poem “Hope is the thing with feathers.” “Hope is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all.” This really stood out to me because, it helps to remind me that even though it’s hard to find hope in situations, it is ingrained in us. Just like how it’s ingrained into birds to sing, even though they don’t have words it just comes natural to them .

Emily Dickerson played a significant role in today's writing, by showing how to use symbolism to hide a deeper meaning in writings. Dickerson constantly used different symbols to help create a meaning in each of her writings, which is such a great example for writers today to find ways to symbolize meanings in their own writings.

Before this project I had never read any of her work before, and i didn’t think I would
enjoy reading her poems. But after reading some of her lighter themed poems, I can say I highly recommend them. They are a great way to try to find the a deeper meaning in writings, and have some really good topics to look at.

How are we supposed to find our purpose in life? Attimes we all struggle to find what we are mean’t to do, our purpose for life. I know I have struggled with that question. In one of Dickinson’s poems, “Because I could not stop death,” she tell how death has come for her. As she is leaving with death, she takes a hard look at her life as she leaves and notices things. Just like in the story, we need to take a deeper look into our lives to see our strengths and weaknesses, and how we can help others to find our purpose in life.