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Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830, and died there some fifty-five years later on May 15, 1886. She grew up in a house called the Dickinson Homestead which was large and surrounded in meadow. There, Emily made her poems and got ideas for them. In the next few paragraphs I will be stating how Emily Dickinson’s life experiences effected her poetry. Amherst was a farm-based community that grew in Emily’s lifetime from about 2700 to about 4200 inhabitants. Contemporary American authors and a large amount of popular and sentimental literature became popular in this isolated town. This is probably one reason why Emily Dickinson was inspired t