1. EMILY DICKINSON

2. “THE BELLE OF AMHERST”

3. AMHERST,MASSACHUSETTS

4. Match these images with her poems:

5. Dickinson's Common Themes
Nature
Love
God
Immortality

6. ABOUT DICKINSON’S STYLE
Cryptic – secretive, hidden, buried, needs to be decoded
“My constant theme is Immortality.”

7. Emily's Poems “Snake” “I Never Saw a Moor”
“We Never Know How High We Are”
“I Like to See it Lap the Miles”

8. “Snake” Lyric (riddle) Rhyme & meter Explicit persona
Figures of speech
Diction
Imagery
Tone – observant, casual

9. "I Never Saw a Moor" Lyric Rhyme & meter Quatrains Diction Imagery
Biographical
From natural
To supernatural
Tone - confident
"I Never Saw a Moor"

10. "We Never Know How High We Are"
Lyric
Rhyme & meter
Quatrains
Explicit persona
Diction
From physical
To metaphysical
Tone – wry, ironic
"We Never Know How High We Are"