Emily Dickinson as a Poet Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 to a prominent family. She was haunted by the menace of death throughout her life. Although she had written 800 poems between 1858 to 1865, it was discovered by her sister that Emily had written around 1800 poems in her lifetime which she didn’tContinue reading “Before I got my eye put out by Emily Dickinson – Poem meaning and analysis”