Ethereal Intellectual
Charlotte Brontë described her sister Emily Brontë in the following way:
Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero; but she had no worldly wisdom; her powers were unadapted to the practical business of life. An interpreter ought always to have stood between her and the world. (Source.)
Yeah, we think that about sums it up. In other words, Emily was a bit of a space cadet, but it's cool because she was so in an intellectual way. She always challenged the mind and strove to utilize her imagination as much as possible.
Even in "Remembrance" we see her contemplating the different ways the human mind is affected by time and grief instead of just focusing on the weepy stuff. Between her imaginary land of "Gondal" and her poems that often included rather dark thoughts and passions, Brontë was no stranger to the stranger parts of life. Unfortunately, we don't really know that much about her, being that she died just after her 30th birthday. But if you take a gander at some of her more famous poems, you'll likely see Gondal or some other highly imaginative setting that challenges our minds in all sorts of awesome ways:
• "Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun"
• "I Am the Only Being Whose Doom"
• "No Coward Soul is Mine"