MY QUESTION IS THAT EMILY WROTE WONDERFUL POEMS OF THE OUTSIDE WORLD, (FOR EXAMPLE ABOUT BEAUTIFUL MEADOWS AND TREES AND CHILDREN PLAYING, ETC.) YET SHE STAYED AT HOME (IN DOORS) MOST OF HER LIFE, SO WHERE DID SHE GET THIS TALENT, OR IS IT A GIFT?

-- Anonymous, February 25, 2000

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I don't know about it being a talent or a gift but she wrote about what she observed from her window which was nature. She probably took walks much like Whitman did too at least that is what I would guess.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2000

I think Dickenson's writings were so excellent because she had a great gift for words. All of us can see nature, even if we do stay inside all the time, but Dickenson described it so beautifully because she had such an enormous vocabulary and gift for writi

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2000

Emily Dickinson may have been indoors most of her life, but I am sure she had seen the outdoors. She could have very easily captured different things from the outdoors and remembered them as if they were yesterday even though she did not see them very often. Her talents and gifts didn't just come out of the blue. Surely they were developed from years of hardships and experiences that put her into depression.

-- Anonymous, March 02, 2000

I think Emily had talent for writing but she was also an isolated observer. If she wasn't involved with life as most people were she then had the time to contemplate the things that she did see and know.Having such limited exexposure would make what she did see seem much more important. I also think that Emily was an educated person from an educated family. That knoweledge, especially if she read alot, had to help make her world a more vivid place.

-- Anonymous, March 18, 2000