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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. By: Meagan Lock. Emily Dickinson By: Meagan Lock Roper 2 nd Period- English 11. Emily Dickinson’s Life. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10 th , 1830, in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Emily Dickinson

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  1. Emily Dickinson By: Meagan Lock Emily Dickinson By: Meagan Lock Roper 2nd Period- English 11

  2. Emily Dickinson’s Life • Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830, in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. • Her family were very active in this community; their house known as “The Homestead”. • A very important issue at the time was the issue of religion, which to Emily was the “all important question”. Emily’s ancestors can be traced back to the early Puritan settlers. -The Calvinist approach to which was the one Emily was put under, believed that men were inherently sinful and most humans were doomed to hell. Very few would be saved, and this could only be achieved by proclaiming faith in Jesus Christ, as the true Savior. • Emily had influences coming from school and family to become saved.

  3. Emily Dickinson’s Life (cont.) • Emily was an amazing artist and a very talented musician as well as a critically acclaimed poet. • During her time in college, she also did her fair share of singing. She believed that a song was simply a poem with a musical undertone. • Emily was very well read, she choose writers from her time and before such as Emerson, Thoreau, Dickens, John Ruskin, and poets from the 1800’s like the Browning’s and the Bronte sisters. • Benjamin Newton, One of Emily Dickinson’s brother’s friends was the first one to recognize her true poetic ability. • Emily had innovative views and un-orthodox ideology.

  4. Emily Dickinson’s Life (cont.) • After college, Emily returned home and helped her mother with the every day chores. • She was said to beautiful, with a soft voice and very beautiful dark and sad eyes. • Emily Dickenson looked to others for protection. • She had a childlike state of mind. • Her father shortly was in the House of Representatives and she often had to travel to Washington (DC) to go to his many political parties and afairs where she had trouble with the social situations in her daily life. • Then soon began Emily seclusion into her own world where she wrote her best and most famous poems.

  5. Emily’s Seclusion • Emily felt it was easier for her to just stay away and by herself then having to go through the awkward social situations that occurred on an almost daily basis. • She began to write more to fill her time and her loneliness helped her by giving her inspirations for some of her greatest poetry.

  6. The poem… • http://youtu.be/tBRE2j-4_tY • 4 stanzas • ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GHGH rhyme scheme. • 2 meters: 1) Duo Meter, 2) Trochaic Tetrameter

  7. The death of Emily Dickenson • May 15th, 1886 • She was 55 years, 5 months, and 5 days at her death. • She is buried in West Cemetery, Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, America

  8. Sources • http://www.biographyonline.net/poets/emily_dickinson.html • http://youtu.be/tBRE2j-4_tY • http://www.dantealighierithedivinecomedy.com/2010/09/poetry-analysis-theres-certain-slant-of.html

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