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 * How Dickinson changed modern poetry**


 * 1) **Dickinson only had 10 poems published when she died**
 * 2) **After she died, they found tons more poems in a crate and her fame continued**
 * 3) **She has some of the greatest poem's ever written in English**
 * 4) **In 1862 she wrote to a stranger**
 * 5) **She kept her poems in a bureau drawer, sewn into bundles**
 * 6) **She meant for her poem's to be an experience**
 * 7) **She had shared a couple of her poem's with her closest friend's**
 * 8) **She requested for Higginson to not "betray" her**
 * 9) **Her poetry reflects her loneliness**
 * 10) **Her poems are marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving**
 * 11) **Bowles was Dickinson secret love**
 * 12) **She lived and died in Amherst, Massachusetts**
 * 13) **She wrote 1,775 poems**
 * 14) **She suffered from an unnamed illness**
 * 15) **Emily** **Dickinson** **lived with her unmarried sister Lavinia**
 * 16) **There house was called the homestead**
 * 17) **Dickinson** **came to Higginson in the guise of an unpublished novice**
 * 18) **Her poetry is compounded of two elements**
 * 19) **Her work mostly remained unpublished**
 * 20) **Attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary**
 * 21) **In the late 1860's she hardly left her room**
 * 22) **She didn't title her poems**
 * 23) **She didn't title because she didn't want to publish**
 * 24) **She wrote a lot about nature**
 * 25) **She used dashes in her poem to emphasize a pause**
 * 26) **She wrote in free verse**
 * 27) **Even though she lived during the civil war, she never wrote about any of it**
 * 28) **Her Irish immigrant servants said that they deserve to be recognized**
 * 29) **She was born December 10th, 1830**
 * 30) **They don't know when she started to write poem's**
 * 31) **She had eye trouble in the last 2 decades of her life**
 * 32) **Spent most of her life in her birthplace**
 * 33) **She had an unusual life**
 * 34) **Lived 50 miles from Boston**
 * 35) **Her sister Lavinia posted her work after she had died**
 * 36) **Only 5 poem's are dated prior 1858**
 * 37) **The first volume of her work was posted in 1890**
 * 38) **The last volume of her work was posted in 1955**
 * 39) **Her family discovered around 40 volumes of poems**
 * 40) **She was influenced by seventeenth century England poet's**