ave several significant relationships. Emily began to dress in all white, resembling a bride. Around the age of thirty, she rarely saw anyone. She lived in her room and garden. She would communicate with people through letters. She only wrote to a select few. Nearly every letter she wrote would have a poem included. Her family and a few close friends would stand at her bedroom door, which was ajar, to talk to her. [ 6. http://metalab.unc.edu/cheryb.women/Emily-Dickinson- bio.htm ] During her withdrawal from society, she wrote practically all her poems. She had three main themes; they were death, love, and nature. [ 9.http://www.kutztown.edu/faculty/reagan/*censored*inson.html and 12. Notable Poets, volume one, page 288] Emily wrote many poems for close friend, Susan. In these poems, she expressed her love for Susan, her desire to hold and kiss her, and her sorrow being without Susan. These poems and letters have led some people to think Emily was a lesbian. [ 10. http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/e_*censored*in.html ] Dickinson had her greatest poetic output during the Civil War. She wrote around eight hundred poems in this time. To go along with this great output came a stressful period, too. Emily went through great stress in the year eighteen hundred sixty-two because of the distance and danger threatened to her friends. Also during this time, she had persistent eye trouble, which led her in eighteen hundred sixty- four and sixty-five, to spend several months in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for treatment. After she was back home in Amherst, she never traveled again, and after the late eighteen hundred sixtys, she never left the boundaries of the family property. [ 4. wysiwyg://5/http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5 716,30830+1,00.htm] Her isolation increased because her family and friends began to die. This is one of her well known poems. "Because I could not stop for Death, H...
