“Emily Dickinson had made the momentous discovery that the organization and the symbolic intensity of poetry relieved and channeled her pent-up feelings to a degree afforded by no other avenue open to her. In this poet, creativity and psychic disorganization came within a hair’s breadth of each other.” 17 Her poems not only record ecstatic devotion, but her sharp, skeptical independence, her doubt, and what repeatedly opens up her ecstasy—her despair. “The poems she left to the world, the best evidence we have today, are the speculations and contemplation’s, the queries and outbursts of a tough-minded, independent woman whose self-doubt and timidity’s were a mask.”18 To put more of a focus on Emily Dickinson’s inner life is to only examine her poems. Thus, one can see the true life of Dickinson. Coming to the conclusion that, loneliness, passion, and suffering are evident in Emily Dickinson’s works....
