good friend contributed to her life suffering. Also how greatly affected her as a whole, causing her poetry to sound more complex, and disparate....it’s cool and quiet and I can forget the toil and care of the feverish day, and then I am selfish too, because I am feeling lonely; some of my friends are gone, and some of my friends are sleeping - sleeping the churchyard sleep-the hour of evening is sad-it was once my study hour-my master is gone to rest, and the open leaf of the book, and the scholar at school alone, make the tears come, and I can pay the departed Humphrey. You have stood by the grave before; I have walked the sweet summer evenings and read the names on the stones, and wondered who would come and give me the same memorial; but I never have laid my friends there, and forgot that they too must die; this is my first affliction, and indeed ‘tis hard to bare it.Throughout the letter one can almost sense the panic, fear, and frustration that played on in her mind. “How to find a way toward her real life through these poems [and letters]? No dates, no titles, merely clues. We shall have to guess at many things. We shall step lightly through her days, her gardens, her dawns and evenings, clouds, storm and pain. And more passion than I had imagined. 15 Gradually drawing from society, and local activities, this explains more on her as a poet: “She composed over 1,000 unique lyrics dealing with religion, love, nature, wit, its delicate metrical variation, and it’s bold and startling imagery, has had great influence onthe 20th cent. poetry.” 16 Yes, of course she did influence many, and more over, impressed many authors. Even today, some use Dickinson’s poetry to encounter places that they have never been. Emily Dickinson manner of life and her way of telling about her life were symptomatic of her sense of mystery of things. Central to this mystery was the mystery of herself. ...
