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EMILY DICKINSON

Explore the secluded life of poet Emily Dickinson, her powerful poetry born out of isolation, and the impact of her solitude on her literary works. Discover the hidden world of one of America’s greatest poets.

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EMILY DICKINSON

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  1. EMILY DICKINSON BY: TAYLOR BENZEL

  2. Emily Dickinson • Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. • She lived in isolation from the outside world and only communicated with very few people, mostly her family. • Her father served one term in congress, while her brother studied to become an attorney. Her sister lived a similar life in isolation.

  3. Emily Dickinson • Even though she was isolated from everyone she still read and wrote poems. • The very few people she knew impacted on her thoughts and her poetry. • Dickinson wrote many poems based on her loneliness from isolating herself.

  4. Emily Dickinson • Emily Dickinson died in Amherst in 1886. • After her death, her family found her 40 hand bound volumes of nearly 1800 of her poems. • Emily Dickinson is known as one of America’s greatest poets.

  5. I Hide Within My FlowerBy Emily Dickinson I HIDE myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

  6. Bibliography • http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155 • http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html • http://www.bartleby.com/113/3007.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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