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ABOUT:  Emily Elizabeth Dickinson  (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet.  Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work.   Read more here: Emily Dickinson Now, enjoy the short yet powerful poem: I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! A Quote: "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all..." - Emily Dickinson

ABOUT THE POET (SOURCE: Sylvia plath organization and wikipedia)   S ylvia Plath   ( October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in   Boston ,   Massachusetts , she studied at   Smith College   and   Newnham College   at the   University of Cambridge   before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She married fellow poet   Ted Hughes   in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in   England . They had two children,   Frieda   and   Nicholas , before separating in 1962. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She committed suicide in 1963. Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections,  The Colossus and Other Poems  an...