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December 10, 1830- May 15, 1886 EMILY DICKINSON. About Emily  1874 her father died  Being an already reclusive person, she became even more withdrawn.

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1 December 10, 1830- May 15, 1886 EMILY DICKINSON

2 About Emily  1874 her father died  Being an already reclusive person, she became even more withdrawn from the world. She mainly talked to friends through letters  Over the ten years her mother, nephew, and close friends Samuel Bowles and Charles Wadsworth died.  In 1884 Dickinson was diagnosed with a severe kidney disease called Bright’s Disorder. She died 2 years later  Her unpublished poems were found by her sister, Lavinia, after her death.  1890 her poems were published in three volumes

3 Emily’s Writing Style Considered too unconventional to be published during her lifetime. She often used: dashes to create a varied rhythm. off rhymes are word that kind of rhyme but don’t really unusual metaphors Major Themes in her works  Life  Death  Time  Eternity/ Religion  Love  Nature

4 I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of a storm. The eyes beside me had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in all his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,- and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see. Simile Situational Irony

5 My life closed twice before it’s close; It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me, So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell. Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell. Tone: hopeless, sad, portraying her life as already been over twice Hyperbole: exaggerates the pain of events as being death. Creates an image of her sufferings.

6 Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard; And sore must be the storm That could abash that little bird That kept so many warm. I’ve heard it in the chillest land, And on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

7 Dickinson, Emily. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ney York City: Barnes & Noble Books, 2003.


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