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EMILY DICKINSON
1830-1866
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EARLY YEARS• Second of three children in Amherst, MA
• Father was a lawyer – wealthy and respected
• Attended Puritan church services where father was a leader
•Well educated for a woman of her time.
• Attended Amherst Academy – modern curriculum of English and sciences, Latin, botany, and math
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The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, MA
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HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS…
•Only left home TWICE
• Family library provided her access to books about religion, works by Emerson, and other transcendentalists
• 1850: began to write and circulate poems around to friends
• First publication: “Sic transit Gloria mandi” in the Springfield Darily Republican in 1852
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PUBLICATIONS • 1862: second poem published – “Safe in their alabaster chambers”
• Became a recluse around this time
•Mentor: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Responded to an advertisement he placed about developing young writers
• Advised against publishing – “raw form” and subject matter
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LATER YEARS…
•Suffered from eye-trouble
•Allegedly … dressed entirely in white, communicated indirectly with visitors from behind a folding screen or via notes and gifts let down from her window into the garden
•During civil war, wrote an estimated 800 poems
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AFTER HER DEATH…
• Locked box found in her bedroom containing 40 notebooks full of poems
•Unarranged and only 24 were titled
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NOTORIETY AFTER DEATH
•Higginson published volumes Dickinson’s works but edited them heavily for conventional punctuation, form , and content
•His edition helped her poetry gain national prominence and attention
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Emily’s Room and Dress
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THEME AND TONE
•Observer who used images to probe universal themes: the wonders of nature, identity of self, death and immortality, and love
•Uses humor and pathos
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FORM AND STYLE
• Lyric poems = short poems w/ single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings
• Speaker is first person (“I”) and not necessarily Emily herself
• Fewer than 10 of her 1800 are titled – given numbers as titles for first lines act as titles
• Lines of 3 and 4 iambs: trimester and tetrameter
• Imperfect rhyme – slant rhyme or approximate rhyme
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TRIMETER AND TETRAMETER
I dwell in possibility -4 iambs
A fairer House than Prose -3 iambs
More numerous of windows -4 iambs
Superior for doors -3 iambs
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DICKINSON ASSIGNMENT, 1/2
Title of Poems
1.What is
the meaning?
Use an example from text
to support
your answer
2.Find three
examples of Poetic Devices: imagery, metaphor, simile,
alliteration,
consonance,
symbol, personificati
on
3.
Write one line that is
trimeterand one that is
tetrameter
4.Tone and Mood:
use an example from text
to support
your answer
5.What
time in Dickinson’s life do you believe
she wrote this? Why?
Title
Title
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ASSIGNMENT, PERIODS 5/6• Choose 2 Dickinson poems
• Complete the following tasks:• Identify 3 examples of the follow ing poetic devices (red): imagery,
symbol, metaphor, simile, allusion, alliteration, consonance, personification
• Identify the meter of the poem (orange): trimeter (3 iambs), tetrameter (4), pentameter (5)
• What is the meaning of this poem? Give evidence to support your analysis
• What is the tone/mood? Provide evidence
• At what time in Emily’s life do you believe she wrote this? Why?
• Choose an emotion to write a poem about – using “254” as a model. Must be 3 stanzas long