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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. By Chase Allday. Birth. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts She was the second child born to Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson Emily has an older brother, William Austin Dickinson, and a younger sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson.

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Emily Dickinson

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  1. Emily Dickinson By Chase Allday

  2. Birth • Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts • She was the second child born to Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson • Emily has an older brother, William Austin Dickinson, and a younger sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson

  3. Edward Dickinson • Edward Dickinson was a Yale Graduate • He was a successful lawyer • He was also a Treasurer for Amherst College and a US Congressman

  4. Samuel Fowler Dickinson • Samuel Dickinson was Emily’s grandfather • He is best known for almost single handedly founding Amherst College

  5. Early Life • Emily and her family lived with her grandfather Samuel until she was ten years old • In 1840 they moved to North Pleasant St. • The same year Emily was enrolled in Amherst Academy

  6. Education • By 1847 Dickinson had proved to be an outstanding student • At the age of seventeen she left to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts • She only stayed at Mount Holyoke for one year • It is speculated that she left because of homesickness

  7. 1855 • Emily and her sister spent time in both Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. • Emily’s father also bought the home on Main Street that she was born

  8. 1862 • Dickinson found her call for poetry and submitted her work to be published in the Atlantic Monthly. • The editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson tried to correct her work, but she wouldn’t allow him to do so. • Many people think that Emily had romantic feelings for him.

  9. 1864 and 1865 • Emily went to stay with her cousins in Boston to see an eye doctor. • The doctor forbid her to read or write.

  10. 1870s • In the early 1870’s Emily’s mother was confined to her dead • In 1874 her father Edward died and she was depressed and stopped going out in public

  11. 1880s • Emily was diagnosed with a kidney illness, Bright’s Disease • Maurice Thompson, who was literary editor of The Independent for twelve years, noted in 1891 that her poetry had "a strange mixture of rare individuality and originality". • Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 • She was buried at West Cemetery of Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

  12. “I had no time to hate” I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

  13. Analysis • I think that the poem, “I had no time to hate”, is about regret. I think that Dickinson regrets a time in her life that she didn’t have any love or any hate in her life. • The poem has end rhyme with “me” on line 2 and “enmity” on line 4. • The poem has internal rhyme with “industry” and “be” on line 6 and end rhyme again with “be” on line 6 and “me” on line 8

  14. Works Cited • "Emily Dickinson." - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/>. • "Emily Dickinson." Emily Dickinson. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.shortpoems.org/emily_dickinson/emily.html>.

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