Emily dickenson mental illness bisexual

I am not sure we will ever know the answer to this question; if we mere mortals ever could know or understand Emily Dickinson. Notwithstanding this aberration, her formative, ego-based experience of social and psychological isolation enabled a powerful critique of collective suffering, while the unpredictability of her language has made her available to writers whose subsequent relationships to more multicultural poetries she could not have imagined. Since you were close to your friends, I assume they were your inspiration for some of your writing and influenced it as well. How we write can reveal a tremendous amount about our psychological traits, and the ways in which we think about and analyze it can tap into a true depth psychological process, allowing us to examine our potential for wholeness, but often raising far more questions than the answers it provides. Marriage is looked at as a symbol of eternal love, and death is looked at as a state of eternal rest. If there is a center to what is by now the long history of Dickinson criticism, it is this: She has written of love for men before.

As an observation in support of a theory of mind, her aberrant behavior does advance a framework for seeing Dickinson as, at the very least, unconventional and unwilling or unable to succumb to normative behavior. But personally, it matters a great deal to me. Photograph by Jack Illingworth. Imogene, I am showcasing an Emily Dickinson poem also.