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Emily Dickinson

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Poet

The Resume

    (December 10, 1830-May 15, 1896)
    Wrote 'After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes,' 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' and 'I Felt a Funeral in My Brain'

Why she might be annoying:

    She never named her poems; she just titled them in sequential order.
    She was obsessed with death.
    She suffered from depression.
    Her poetry was not published until after she was dead (except for a few heavily edited ones).
    She never married and lived in her family house all of her life.
    She turned herself into a social outcast, not even allowing friends to visit.

Why she might not be annoying:

    Despite having a tyrannical father and a submissive mother, she developed into a feminist.
    Her poems were so far ahead of their time, that they would not be published.
    Her letters flowed poetically.

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 576 Votes: 61.63% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 18 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 117 Votes: 58.97% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 10 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 37 Votes: 40.54% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 22 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 50 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 45 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 52 Votes: 42.31% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 101 Votes: 62.38% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 115 Votes: 44.35% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 259 Votes: 44.79% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 313 Votes: 44.41% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 636 Votes: 45.28% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 1877 Votes: 47.90% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 5758 Votes: 47.86% Annoying