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Emily Dickinson was raised in a traditional New England home in the mid 1800sHer father along with the rest of the family had become Christians and shealone decided to rebel against that and reject the Church She like manyof her contemporaries had rejected the traditional views in life and adoptedthe new transcendental outlookMassachusetts the state where Emily was born and raised in before thetranscendental period was the epicenter of religious practice Founded bythe puritans the feeling of the avenging had never left the people Afterall of the Great Awakenings and religious revivals the people of New Englandbegan to question the old ways What used to be the focal point of all liveswas now under speculation and often doubted People began to search for newmeanings in life People like Emerson and Thoreau believed that answers liein the individual Emerson set the tone for the era when he said Whosowould be a human must be a non-conformist Emily Dickinson believed andpracticed this philosophy When she was young she was brought up by a stern and austere father In herchildhood she was shy and already different from the others Like all theDickinson children male or female Emily was sent for formal education inAmherst Academy After attending Amherst Academy with conscientious thinkerssuch as Helen Hunt Jackson and after reading many of Emersons essays shebegan to develop into a free willed person Many of her friends had convertedto Christianity her family was also putting enormous amount of pressure for her to convert No longer the submissive youngstershe would not bend her will on such issues as religion literature and personalassociations She maintained a correspondence with Rev Charles Wadsworth over a substantialperiod of time Even though she rejected the Church as a entity she neverdid reject or accept God Wadsworth appealed to her because he had an incrediblypowerful mind and deep emotions When he left the East in 1861 Emily wasscarred and expressed her deep sorrow in three successive poems in
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