1. Emily Dickinson

2. Her life Emily Dickinson was born in Amerherst, Massa and lived there all her life. Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, although fewer than 20 of them were printed in her lifetime. The one major trauma in Dickinson’s life was severe eye trouble

3. Her three advisors and friends Benjamin F. Newton Charles Wadsworth Thomas Higgison

4. Subject Beauty, death, love, pain, nature, religion, and immortality.

5. Some features Small/all Eye/I Noon / madam / Hannah / nurses run / Able was I ere I saw Elba

6. Writing style Comment on dashes

7. Interpreting the poem I'm Nobody !Who are you?

8. The comparison between Whitman and Dickinson Different visions, styles and personalities Walt Whitman : a public poet Dickinson: a recluse poet.

9. The summary of Romanticism of American Literature Characteristics of the romantic movement exemplified in American literature are sentimentalism ( ); the celebration of natural beauty and the simple life ( ); interest in the picturesque past ( ); concern with a crepuscular world of mystery ( ); individualism ( ); technical innovation ( ); morbid melancholy ( ); rich imagination ( ).