
18: The Enigma of Emily Dickinson (Part 1)
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Emily Dickinson's Lifelong Passion for Science
Emily Dickinson was the precocious middle child of the family. In 1935 at the age of five, Emily begins her four years of primary school. At 10 she and Livinia begin their first year at Amherst Academy. She notes in her letters that she is in love with her teachers. The author of lives like loaded guns states, many images in Dickinson's poems would be drawn from geology,. volcanoes, earthquakes, coral reefs, anthracite, quartz.
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