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Emily Dickinson 1830-1866

Emily Dickinson 1830-1866 . 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.

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Emily Dickinson 1830-1866

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  1. Emily Dickinson1830-1866

  2. 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

  3. The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, MA

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. After her death… • Locked box found in her bedroom containing 40 notebooks full of poems • Unarranged and only 24 were titled

  8. 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

  9. Emily’s Room and Dress

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Dickinson assignment, 1/2

  14. 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

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