Emily's Poems

The people involved in Emilys life had huge impacts in her poetry. A man known as Charles Wadsworth was one of the few people who were involved in her poetry. She met Charles, on one of her rare adventures out to Philadelphia. They started talking and eventually became close. Charles flew out to Amherst to visit Emily in 1860, to say goodbye. He was heading off to the west coast and wanted to see Emily one last time. His departure caused Emily to have "severe heartache" which appeared in her poetry for many years. Emily used her poetry as a way of expressing her feelings. Whether her feelings be suffrage, sorrow, happiness or anger.  The few people in Emily's life impacted her feelings and she used poetry as a way to express. Emily was a very quiet woman, and poetry was a way she could explain without having to speak. Emily wrote her poetry about her relations that she had and how they effected her. As years went on, she went through many heartaches and relations. Eventually, in mid to late 1860's, Emily became a very isolated person. Due to her living in her household a majority of her life, her family became her friends. Even though a majority of her poetry reflected upon sadness and sorrow, she had a peek of hope within them. Her inspiration from writing came from the Metaphysical poets of the 17th-century England, Robert and Elizabeth Browning and many more people.