Although little is known of their early relations, the letters written to Gilbert while she was teaching at Baltimore speak with a kind of hope for a shared perspective, if not a shared vocation. In 1855 Dickinson traveled to Washington, D.C., with her sister and father, who was then ending his term as U.S. representative. About Emily Dickinson | Academy of American Poets Request a transcript here. Sue and Emily, she reports, are the only poets. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. But modern categories of sexual relations do not fit neatly with the verbal record of the 19th century. The 19th-century Christians of Calvinist persuasion continued to maintain the absolute power of Gods election. Staying with their Amherst friend Eliza Coleman, they likely attended church with her. The least sensational explanation has been offered by biographer Richard Sewall. Though few were published in her lifetime, she sent hundreds to friends, relatives, and othersoften with, or as part of, letters. In an early poem, she chastised science for its prying interests. Dickinsons use of the image refers directly to the project central to her poetic work. She sent poems to nearly all her correspondents; they in turn may well have read those poems with their friends. 2544 likes. Emily Dickinson attended Amherst Academy in her Massachusetts hometown. I believe the love of God may be taught not to seem like bears. Dickinsons acts of fancy and reverie, however, were more intricately social than those of Marvels bachelor, uniting the pleasures of solitary mental play, performance for an audience, and intimate communion with another. Like writers such asCharlotte BrontandElizabeth Barrett Browning, she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. The American Renaissance in New England. The Soul selects her own society. Savoring the rich poetic gifts of summer. The love that dare not speak its name may well have been a kind of common parlance among mid-19th-century women. A poem built from biblical quotations, it undermines their certainty through both rhythm and image. Dickinson frequently builds her poems around this trope of change.