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The purpose of this study is to highlight Emily Dickinson's unconventionality by comparing her poetry with that of Helen Hunt Jackson, one of her famous contemporaries then. Most women poets in nineteenth-century America conformed to the poetic convention of the day. Jackson, among others, was responsive to the considerably genteel, imitative, sentimental, feminine poetry as expected of women poets of her time. Conforming to the constraints of the publishing world, she became a very popular poet of her time. On the contrary, Dickinson decided not to have her poems published because she did not want to conform to an editor's directions. Unlike Jackson, she sought a new path of her own technique of poetry. Rather than ignoring the constraints that the publishing world would have placed on her poetry, we should consider how her striking originality responds to cultural pressures. Today, she is more highly esteemed more honorably ranked than the successful Jackson of nineteenth-century America.