EMILY DICKINSON

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EMILY DICKINSON
BYBRANDONCORY 3rd period Mr.Efird
(1830-1886)
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Biography of Emily Dickinson

• BORN Amherst, Massachusetts, Dec 10, 1830
• She was born to a religious and well-to-do
  family.
• As a child she was lively, well behaved, and
  obedient.
• Her poems helped initate modern poerty, as an
  enigma, a mystery, a paradox.
• She lived what some would call a short life. She
  died on May 15, 1886 at the age of 56.

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The Literary Period

• TRANSCENDENTALIST MOVEMENT-American
  transcendentalism was an important movement in
  philosophy and literature that flourished during
  the early to middle years of the nineteenth
  century (about 1836-1860). 

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GENRE

• Emily Dickinson is known for her use of modern
  poetry
• Dickinson's works have had considerable influence
  on modern poetry. Her frequent use of dashes,
  sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhymes,
  broken metre, unconventional metaphors have
  contributed her reputation as one of the most
  innovative poets of 19th-century American
  literature. Later feminist critics have
  challenged the popular conception of the poet as
  a reclusive, eccentric figure, and underlined her
  intellectual and artistic sophistication.

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The Historical Period

• Emily Dickinson full maturity as a truly
  dedicated artist occurred during the Civil War
  (1861-1865). Which was the most convulsive era
  in the nations history.
• This was an influence on her works because some
  of her works dealt with madness, solitude, and
  even death.

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Style that Emily Dickinson uses
a. slant rhyme a kind of consonance (relation
between words in which the final consonants in
the stressed syllables agree but the vowels that
precede them differ add/read, up/step,
peer/pare, while/hill). b. eye rhyme rhyme that
appears correct from the spelling but is not so
from the pronunciation, such as watch/match,
love/move, through/enough. c. true rhyme
identity of terminal sound between accented
syllables, usually occupying corresponding
positions in two or more lines of verse. The
correspondence of sound is based on the vowels
and succeeding consonants of the accented
syllables, which must, for a true rhyme, be
preceded by different consonants. Thus "fan" and
"ran" constitute a true rhyme because the vowel
and succeeding consonant sounds ("an") are the
same but the preceding consonant sounds are
different.
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Main work and theme of it

• TELL ALL THE TRUTH BUT TELL IT SLANT-Is one of
  her most famous poems.
• Tell all the truth but tell it slant
• Success in Circuit lies
• Too bright for our infirm Delight
• The Truths superb surprise
• As Lightning to the children eased
• With explanation kind
• The truth must dazzle gradually
• Or every man be blind
• The Major Theme is Dickinsons famous line
  Tell all the truth but tell it slant reveals
  her method of survival as well as the essence of
  her own poetry.

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Emily Dickinson Death
Homestead
A Grave Not Forgotten!
Burial Site
Where she died