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Success Is Counted Sweetness Rough Draft 1
Jada Banks
Mr.Clodfelter
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13 May 2015
Success Is Counted Sweetness
Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson can be considered to be part of the Romantic time period. Dickinson was born a legacy but she was physically disconnected. Success and failure indeed the nectar worth glory of thoughts. Purple hosts was to become brave by a defeated solider, dying was the meaning of victory when he hears the enemy celebrating which states that even thought he was dying , he still was a winning power, which he scarified himself towards, he is a disconnected from the victory. The central argument was the Romantic convention of rebellion from conformity reflects her own inner turmoil because she couldn’t live life either.
Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830 in Amherst Massachusetts. Dickinson left school as a teenager to live a reclusive life on the family homestead. Where it all begins Emily starts to fill up notebooks with poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Her family had deep roots in New England. Her grandfather Samuel Dickinson was well known as the founder of Amherst College. Her father worked at Amherst and served as a state legislator, he married Emily Norcross and had three children. Dickinson well educated at Amherst College and the mount Holyoke female seminary.
Being a student she was an excellent student but missing long time periods of the school year due to frequent illness and depression which were her reasons for her final departure from academy is unknown, it is believed that her fragile emotional state had played a role in her life. Dickinson began writing as a teenager she had three influential people in her life but she was introduced by the poetry of William Wordsworth, who served as inspiration to Emily.
Dickinson went out far of Amherst or as far as she could go. She befriended a minister of the name Charles wadworth. Who was a cherished person in her life. Emily served as chief caregiver for her ill mother from the mid- 1850’s until her

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