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Emily Dickinson. By: Caleb Morgan. Emily Dickinson. Bio-
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Emily Dickinson By: Caleb Morgan
Emily Dickinson Bio- Emily was born December 10, 1830 and lived to May 15, 1886. She was an American poet born in Massachusetts. Dickinson was known for her penchant to white clothing and her reluctance to greet guest. Although Emily was a private poet only less than a dozen of her 1800 poets published. All of her poems were altered to fit the poet rules of the time.
Poem • A little road not made of man, • Enabled of the eye, • Accessible to thill of bee, • Or cart of butterfly. • If town it have, beyond itself, • 'T is that I cannot say; • I only sigh,--no vehicle • Bears me along that way.
Poem Schemes & Themes • Dickinson's poems are unique for the time in which she wrote. they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. * Many of her poems topics are based on immortality and death.