On December 10, 1830, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in the small town of Amherst, Massachusetts, in a house that she remained mostly isolated in for her life. Aside from attending school at Amherst Academy and Holyoke Female Seminary, Emily did not participate in much social activity. Many people have tried to comprehend Emily’s reclusiveness, but maybe the greatest theory is that Emily could not write about the outside world without taking a step back to really observe it. Emily communicated with the outside world mostly by writing letters. A majority of these letters contained Emily’s profound poetry. Even though Emily wrote incredibly elegant poems, she only published a select few. The ones that she did display publicly were often altered by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of her time. She most of her works all around her room, but after her death, her talents would be revealed when her sister Lavinia found 900 of the 1,775 poems and deemed them good enough to be published, but it was not until 1955 when Thomas H. Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson that a completely unaltered version of her works was released. Emily’s poetry was profoundly insightful and became famous for its fresh, wry look on grim things. Most likely due to her troubled early life and social reclusion, she focused her poetry on four main subjects; love, death, pain, and, on a somewhat lighter note, nature. Emily had two siblings, a brother named Austin and a sister that she was very close with named Lavinia. Her grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, almost single-handedly found Amherst College, and his son, Emily’s father, acted as the school’s treasurer. Emily would always refer to her father warmly, but it seemed as though she had a colder relationship with her mother. In one letter that Emily wrote she states that she "always ran Home to Awe [Austin] when a child, if anything befell me. He was an awful Mother, but I l