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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson. Kaitlyn Poole. About the Poet. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10 th of 1830. While she was one of America’s best poets, she lived a strange life of social seclusion. She enjoyed wearing only white dresses, another strange thing about her.

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Emily Dickinson

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  1. Emily Dickinson Kaitlyn Poole

  2. About the Poet • Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th of 1830. • While she was one of America’s best poets, she lived a strange life of social seclusion. • She enjoyed wearing only white dresses, another strange thing about her. • Dickinson was very dedicated to her poetry, writing over 1700 poems in her lifetime but was fairly unknown while she was alive. • At the age if 55 she died from Bright’s disease, doctors also said that stress was a main cause of her early death.

  3. A Poor Torn Heart, A Tattered Heart A POOR torn heart, a tattered heart, That sat it down to rest, Nor noticed that the ebbing day Flowed silver to the west, Nor noticed night did soft descend 5 Nor constellation burn, Intent upon the vision Of latitudes unknown. The angels, happening that way, This dusty heart espied; 10 Tenderly took it up from toil And carried it to God. There,—sandals for the barefoot; There,—gathered from the gales, Do the blue havens by the hand 15 Lead the wandering sails.

  4. About the Poem • The tone of this poem is sad and is referring to a heart that has been broken. • The Theme is the pain of the heart. • It was mainly stressed syllables to unstressed syllable or unstressed syllables to stressed.

  5. What the Critics Say • Roger Lundin argues that Dickinson’s poetry was in large measure about belief, its uncertainties and comforts.

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