There are some different opinions about the life of Emily Dickinson. Some people think she was a reclusive person who stayed indoors most of her life and wrote morbid poems. There are other people who think she was a very outgoing type of person who wasn’t reclusive and is just the opposite of that. That is the controversy of Emily Dickinson. In the Non-fiction story Emily Dickinson, it explains Emily as a recluse that wrote very dark poems that nobody like in that time period. In the Belle of Amherst, the author tells the story as if she were a very outgoing person that called herself the belle of Amherst. In The life of Emily Dickinson, she is made out to be a reclusive woman through the later years of her life who stayed in doors and wrote very dark poems about romance and dark subjects like death. Emily lived in an enormous house in Amherst, Massachusetts with her family. She is said to have lived an outgoing life as a child but turned into a recluse her later years of her life. Nobody liked Emily’s poems while she was alive. Her poems became popular years after her death. No one could accept her poems and the way she wrote poems so the disregarded her. Some people think it is because she liked a man but he was married so she could not have him and that made her reclusive. That is just one opinion of Emily Dickinson’s life.The other opinion is that she was just a very outgoing happy woman who lived her life writing poems of romance. Nobody thinks of her as a recluse and morbid poet. Everyone likes Emily Dickinson in this point of view. Maybe everyone was just tied of thinking of her as an evil woman, and when they started liking her poetry they wanted to think of her as a happier woman. When people like someone’s work they would also like to like the person too. Emily called herself the Belle of Amherst. I like this way of thinking because I don’t like thinking of Emily as an evil woman, and I am sure...
