The document provides background information about the life and poetry of Emily Dickinson. It discusses that she lived a reclusive life in Massachusetts and few of her 18,000 poems were published during her lifetime. After her death, her sister discovered most of her poems and got them published. The document also examines two of Dickinson's poems, "I'm nobody, Who are you?" and "Mine enemy is growing old" to understand characteristics of Dickinson's poetry and her themes around death and immortality.