Throughout her lifetime, Emily Dickinson faced many events that influenced her poetry. As a child, things like 'lacking' a mother or being sent to boarding school. As she got older, she began to see the ones that she loved pass away. Although these were events that happened to everyone, they had a major impact on Dickinson's life. To better understand Emily Dickinson, one must note emotion through poems such as "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?", "…showed first 75 words of 2696 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2696 total…great loss, and that emotion is apparent in her poetry. It is this common emotion that makes her one the greatest American poets today. As a child, things like 'lacking' a mother or being sent to boarding school. As she got older, she began to see the ones that she loved pass away. Although these were events that happened to everyone, they had a major impact on Dickinson's life, and are eminent in her poetry.