Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts; she is the second child of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Throughout Emily's life, her mother was not emotionally accessible, and this caused some of Emily's odd behavior. Later Emily would challenge some Christian religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges had later contributed to the potency of her poetry. .
As a result of Emily Dickinson's loneliness, she was able to focus on her poetry better than other authors that time modern authors who had no effect on her writing. Emily was original and inventive in her poetry, usually drawing on the Bible and Shakespeare for references. Eventually when her poetry was published, editors took it upon themselves to group them into classes, Friends, Nature, Love, and Death. These editors arranged her works with titles, rearranged the sentence structure, and corrected Dickinson's grammar. In 1955, Thomas Johnson published Dickinson's poems in their original formats, therefore displaying the creative genius and peculiarity of her poetry. She wrote many great poems but none of them were ever published, "Though she wrote hundreds of poems, Dickinson never published a book of poetry" . A few poems published during her lifetime were anonymous".
In her poem, Because I could not stop for death, when read the first thing that came to mind was about death. When she says she could not stop for death, it means she is living but the line after "he kindly stopped for me" means that her time to live is up and that death had came to her. When she says "we slowly drove, he knew no haste, and I had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his civility."2 it means that now that her life has ended there is nothing for her to do or worry about. When Emily Dickinson was talking about how she was passing things by, it was probably about her childhood.
