Emily

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Emily
Dickinson
(1830-1880)
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Her Life

• Born and Lived in Amherst, Massachusetts
• Known as the Belle of Amherst and The New
  England Nun
• Wrote 1,775 poems, but only 7 were published
  during her lifetime.
• Attended Amherst Academy/ Mt. Holyoke Seminary
• Cut ties with the outside world in 1860s - never
  left the house after 1868
• Fell in love with a Presbyterian Minister who was
  married, she had only met him once.
• Most of her rhythms come from church hymns.
• Only wore white toward the end of her life.
• Some of her poetry was discovered in little
  bundles tied with blue ribbon.
• Editors changed her poetry (punctuation,
  capitalization, word choice, rhyme).
• Better known for her botany, than poetry in life.

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Great Works

• Because I Could Not Stop For Death
• Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
• I Never Saw A Moor
• I Taste A Liquor Never Brewed
• Success Is Counted Sweetest
• Im Nobody! Who Are You?
• Faith Is A Fine Invention

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Find ecstasy in life the mere sense of living is
joy enough. -Emily Dickinson