Emily Dickinson is one of my favorite poets, but she was as crazy as Howard Hughes, Vincent Van Gogh, or Edgar Allen Poe.
Why was she so crazy. All i really know about her is that she is an american poet.
She dressed all in white, refused to leave her bedroom, and only sold 18 poems while she was alive, out of 1800 that she wrote.  This is the textbook definition of a hermit or recluse.
What made her so crazy though? Was it where she was raised, in Amherst, Massachusetts?
The cause of her reclusion is unknown to me, but i imagine it was due to some childhood trauma, bullying, or just being very different from other people.  Would that make sense?
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an all-girls school for grades 6 to 12 in Wellesley, Massachusetts that boasts an impressive list of alumnae. There she studied mostly English, History, and Creative Writing. Her favorite poets included William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, but it was Allen Ginsberg's "Howl and Other Poems" which she carried in her purse through tenth grade.
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