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Emily Dickinson
An American Legacy
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By:
Glenn Geib
Meagan Morrow
Savanna Reeves
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Biography
• Born Dec. 10, 1830 in Amherst, MA
• Born to a posperous family; father was a lawyer
• Attended Amherst Academy
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Biography, Cont’d…
• Close friends with Thomas W. Higginson, who eventually published her poems.
• She was frequently ill as a child.
• She began writing as a teenager.
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Biography, Cont’d…
• Her poetry became an outlet for her when she lost close friends and family.
• She became a recluse and shied away from society.
• Died May 15, 1886
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Poetry
• Themes of love, death and nature
• Mysterious verse– Punctuation was unconventional– Dashes– Highly personal
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Legacy
• Only seven of her poems were published during her lifetime (anonymously).
• Of her poems, over 1,700 survived.
• It wasn’t until 1955 that her entire works were published.
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Interpretation of The WorksDid you know?…
-Dickinson had a profound obsession with the book of Revelations in the Bible.
-Dickinson Lived a good part of her life in physical isolation after experiencing immense homesickness when going away to school at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary for only one year in South Hadley.
-Dickinson had a fascination with death and had a way of almost glamorizing it. In this excerpt from her poem entitled “I Dwell In Possibility” she sounds as if death is not troubling for her in the least “Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-”(p1056 Dickinson)
-Dickinson had a way of taking ordinary instances in nature such as a bird eating a worm and turning them into fascinating works of literature that keeps the reader reading, and then re-reading to see if anything can be interpreted out of the work. “A Bird Came down the walk- He did not know I saw- He bit the Angleworm in halves”(1052 Dickinson)
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Dickinson & Nature• Dickinson had a profound love for nature that was often
conveyed through her poems.
• Dickinson appreciated the simple, yet important species in nature such as the birds and the bees, and often wrote about them in her poems. “ A bird came down the walk- He did not know I saw”(Dickinson) “At Half Past Three, a single Bird Unto a silent Sky”(Dickinson)
• Dickinson had a way of personifying nature so as though she was speaking of a good friend “Light laughs the breeze”(Dickinson) “When it comes, Landscape listens- Shadows-hold their breath-”(Dickinson)
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My Interpretation• I think that Emily Dickinson was one of those people who were so smart it
makes them socially awkward along with being extremely shy.
• I think that Emily Dickinson found most people other than her family distracting.
• From reading many of Dickinson's poems, specifically “An Altered Look About The Hills”, “There's A Certain Slant of Light”, “Tell All The Truth But Tell It Slant”, and “Summer Shower” the reader quickly catches on that Dickinson is a true observer of nature.
• After hearing of Dickinson’s self imposed isolation her poems become more clear, many of the poems clearly sound like the thoughts of someone observing nature through their window.
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The Era of Emily Dickinson1830-1886
Savanna Reeves
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Heritage • English Lineage• Great Puritan Migration (1620-1640)• Ancestors left to pursue religious freedom• Emily a second generation “American.”
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The Victorian Era1837-1901
• Characteristics: High morals, modesty,
social decorum• civic conscience/social
responsibility • Age of Industrialization• Age of Exploration: -Settlement of the West
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The Victorian Erapertaining to Literature
• Demographics-Audience is predominantly middle
class-(Europe) The New Aristocracy-(America) Men and Women of the
middle class• Themes-rural life, nature, changing roles of
women
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Women in Society• Expectations:• Virtuous and dutiful disposition• Domestic duties• Upper Class
-Educated, well rounded, and cultured.
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Works Cited:• http://www.erasofelegance.com/history/victorian.html
• http://fineartamerica.com/images-medium/boulder-victorian-jerry-mcelroy.jpg
• http://images.oldhouseweb.com/stories/bitmaps/15027/victorian_exterior_photo.jpg
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• http://ezinearticles.com/?Life-of-Women-in-the-Victorian-Era&id=2359711
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Works Cited
Dickinson, Emily. “Poem 712.” The Norton Anthology of World Literature: 1800-1900. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2002.1049 - 1056.
“Timeline of Emily Dickinson.” Famous People Biography Guide. 3 Nov 2009. <http://www.famouspeoplebiographyguide.com/writer/Emily-dickinson/Timeline-Of-Emily-Dickinson.html?>