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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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Emily Dickinson: Biography
• Born the second of three children in Amherst, Massachusetts
• Father was a lawyer and one of the wealthiest and most respected citizens in the town, as well as a conservative leader of the church
• Dickinson grew up regularly attending services at the Congregational First Church of Christ (Congregational churches essentially followed the New England Puritan tradition)
• She attended Amherst Academy, where she studied a modern curriculum of English and the sciences, as well as Latin, botany and mathematics
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Dickinson seldom left Amherst
• Her one lengthy absence was a year at Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary (1847-48), in South Hadley, ten long miles away, where she was intensely homesick for her “own DEAR HOME.”
• Dickinson declared home to be holy, “the definition of God,” a place of “Infinite power.”
• She admired Ralph Waldo Emerson and his ideas, but did not go next door to meet him when he stayed there during a lecture tour in 1857.
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Religion played an important role in her life.
• Dickinson was terrorized by old-fashioned sermons about damnation and by the frequency of death in that age of high infant and childhood mortality.
• As her friends moved away and got married, she gradually became estranged from the religious beliefs of her community.
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Emily Dickinson: Biography
• She spent sociable evenings with guests such as Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Daily Republican
• She also enjoyed dancing, buggy rides, parlor games, and other forms of entertainment until she began to seclude herself
• Around 1860, she stopped visiting with other people and became a recluse
• In 1862, her poem “Safe in their alabaster chambers” appeared in the Springfield Daily Republican
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• While becoming more reclusive, Dickinson intensified correspondence with friends and output of poetry
• She suffered from eye-trouble in 1864 and 1865
• The last 12 years she spent in self-imposed isolation in her parents’ home
• Allegedly, Dickinson dressed entirely in white and communicated only indirectly with visitors and friends, from behind a folding screen or via notes and gifts in a basket she let down from her window into the garden
• Her most productive period coincided with the civil war, during which she wrote about 800 poems
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Literary Influences
• She knew the poetry of Longfellow, Holmes, and Lowell.
• She identified with Hawthorne’s isolated, gnarled, idiosyncratic characters.
• Emerson was an enduring favorite.• She loved Thoreau, recognizing a kindred
spirit in the independent, nature-loving man who delighted in being the village crank of Concord.
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Other Influences
• The Bible• Dead and living British
writers– Her knowledge of
Shakespeare was minute and extremely personal.
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Dickinson’s StyleShort Meter (8.6.8.6)--Dickinson found poetic freedom within the
confines of this meter.
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Occasionally rides--
You may have met him--did you not
His notice sudden is--
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Slant RhymeWithin the structure form of short meter, she multiplied
possibilities by substituting consonance and assonance for rhyme.
. . . Have passed, I thought, a Whip lash
Upbraiding in the Sun
When stopping to secure it
It wrinkled and was gone--
Several of Nature’s People
I know, and they know me--
I feel for them a transport
Of cordiality--
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ThemesDickinson often brought dazzling originality to overwrought topics.
•Life•Love, including Marriage and the position of
women in society.•Nature--she was well-schooled in contemporary science.•Time and Eternity•Death and Mourning•Religion and Faith•Isolation and Depression•Poetry and Language
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Her Grave
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Emily Dickinson
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The Homestead 1813
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The Homestead
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Repainted Homestead
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Dickinson’s Room
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Dickinson’s Room
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