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    Emily Dickinson was a renowned American poet born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a reclusive life and wrote over 1,800 poems that were discovered after her death. Dickinson was influenced by the Civil War and deaths of loved ones. Her unconventional use of form, syntax and themes made her a pioneering figure in American poetry.

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    Emily Dickinson was a renowned American poet born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a reclusive life and wrote over 1,800 poems that were discovered after her death. Dickinson was influenced by the Civil War and deaths of loved ones. Her unconventional use of form, syntax and themes made her a pioneering figure in American poetry.

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    Emily Dickinson was a renowned American poet born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She lived a reclusive life and wrote over 1,800 poems that were discovered after her death. Dickinson was influenced by the Civil War and deaths of loved ones. Her unconventional use of form, syntax and themes made her a pioneering figure in American poetry.

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    Emily Dickinson

    Agenda
    Goal for today:
    2.1 Articulate responses to issues/themes by
    expressing and supporting points of view; citing
    I can express my point of
    appropriate evidence and exploring multiple
    view of the text by using
    perspectives
    evidence from the reading
    and other’s perspectives.

     Author Bio: Who is Emily Dickinson


     Examination of Poem 479
     Video detailing how Emily writes her poems
     Group poem examinations
     Scaffolding Exercise
    Who is Emily
    Dickinson
     “the most paradoxical of
    poets; the very poet of
    paradox” (Oates, 806)

    Oates, Joyce Carol. “Soul at the ___White Heat: The


    ___Romance of Emily Dickinson's Poetry.” Critical ___Inquiry,
    vol. 13, no. 4, 1987, pp. 806–824.,
    ___https://doi.org/10.1086/448421.
    Early Life
     B. Dec. 10, 1830 D. May
    1886
    - Heart Failure from severe
    hypertension
     Born in Amherst
    Massachusetts
     Father, Edward, was a
    lawyer and state
    representative & senator
    Mental
    Illness
     Suffered from a presence
    called the Menace of
    Death
     Worsened when people
    died around her
     Cousin, Sophia Holland,
    died from Typhus

     Yet, still attended


    Amherst academy 1840-
    1846 & Holyoke Female
    Seminary for a year
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Faith and
    Literature
     Not religious
     Read
    - Charles Dickens
    - Robert Browning
    - Laureate Tennyson
    - Bronte Sisters
    - George Elliot
    - Elizabeth Barrett
    Browning

     She started to develop


    her style
    Civil War
     Emily Dickenson wrote
    most of her poems
    between 1858-1865

     Civil War lasted from


    1861-1865

     Became a shut-in Civil War, February 1862: 1st battle of the 27th
    Massachusetts a “glorious victory”

     Father died in 1874


    How do we Have
    her Poems?
     After Emily
    Dickinson’s death,
    Lavinia Dickinson,
    her sister,
    discovered more
    than 1800 poems in
    her room.
    Because I could not stop for Death – Or rather – He passed Us –
    He kindly stopped for me – The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
    The Carriage held but just Ourselves – For only Gossamer, my Gown –
    And Immortality. My Tippet – only Tulle –

    We slowly drove – He knew no haste We paused before a House that seemed


    And I had put away A Swelling of the Ground –
    My labor and my leisure too, The Roof was scarcely visible –
    For His Civility – The Cornice – in the Ground –

    We passed the School, where Children


    Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
    strove
    Feels shorter than the Day
    At Recess – in the Ring –
    I first surmised the Horses' Heads
    We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
    Were toward Eternity –
    We passed the Setting Sun –

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