If read carefully, Emily Dickinson tells us through her poetry that she had an intense secret love affair with a married man (which made marriage between the two of them impossible). Yet the love affair inspired many poems where she recounted her intense experiences and deepest feelings and are some of her greatest poems, all the way from her gorgeous love poems to the miserable despair poems.

If read carefully, Emily Dickinson tells us through her poetry that she had an intense secret love affair with a married man (which made marriage between the two of them impossible). Yet the love affair inspired many poems where she recounted her intense experiences and deepest feelings and are some of her greatest poems, all the way from her gorgeous love poems to the miserable despair poems.

If read carefully, Emily Dickinson tells us through her poetry that she had an intense secret love affair with a married man (which made marriage between the two of them impossible). Yet the love affair inspired many poems where she recounted her intense experiences and deepest feelings and are some of her greatest poems, all the way from her gorgeous love poems to the miserable despair poems.