Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to asuccessful family, Emily Elizabeth Dickinsonwas an American poet.She studied at MountHolyoke Female Seminary before 56. ________(return) to her familyˈs house inAmherst whereshe lived 57. ________ peaceful life. She kept intouch with her friends by writing lettersand was58. ________ (willing) to greet guests or, later inlife, even leave her room.
Dickinsonˈs poems are unique for the time shelived in; they contain short lines, typically lacktitles, andoften use half rhyme. Many of herpoems deal 59. ________ themes of death andimmortality(永生).Dickinson wrote about 1,800poems during her lifetime, but fewer than a dozenof 60. ________ werepublished. Although most ofher friends probably knew about Dickinsonˈswriting, they didnˈt know 61. ________ she hadproduced so many poems until after her deathin 1886, when her younger sister Laviniadiscovered the place where the poems werehidden. 62. ________ her sister not discoveredthem, thebroadness of Dickinsonˈs workwouldnˈt have become known.
Dickinsonˈs first collection of poetry waspublished in 1890, the content of 63. ________was heavilyedited by the publishers 64. ________(fit) the conventional poetic rules of the time. Acomplete and mostlyunedited collection of herpoetry became available for the first time in1955. Now Dickinson 65. ________ (consider) tobe one of the most important American poets.