emily dickinson | the greatest poet

“Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived throughout her life in her father’s house. Near the end of her life, she rarely left her own room. Aside from a few mostly anonymous verses, she remained unpublished. When she died, her poems were discovered. Some of the strangest, most fascinating poems ever written. Almost 2,000 of them, hidden in a maid’s trunk.” ▬ This is my attempt at making a character study of Emily Dickinson. I started it a month ago and it was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, not only because it’s almost 7-minute long (believe me, it could’ve been worse and I had to force myself to leave some parts out), but also because I realized that the reason I liked Dickinson so much is that I could, in a sense, relate to Emily. As a french girl, I’ve never heard about Emily Dickinson before watching the show. Funny because in english litterature classes, we studied Poe, Orwell, Bradbury... But no woman in sight. I couldn&