The Life and Works of Emily Dickinson

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The Life and Works of Emily Dickinson

• By Teresa French

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Biography

• Full Name Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
• Date of Birth December 10, 1830
• Hometown Amherst, Massachusetts
• Education Amherst Academy South Hadley Female
  Seminary
• (currently Mount Holyoke College)

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Dickinsons Influences

• Charles Wadsworth
• Thomas Wentworth Higginson
• Samuel Bowles
• J.G. Holland

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Examples of Dickinsons Poetry

• There Is Another Sky
• There is another sky, Ever serene and fair, And
• there is another sunshine, Though it be darkness
• there Never mind faded forests, Austin, Never
• mind silent fields - Here is a little forest,
  Whose
• leaf is ever green Here is a brighter garden,
• Where not a frost has been In its unfading
• flowers I hear the bright bee hum Prithee, my
• brother, Into my garden come!

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Poetry, cont.

• The Mourns Are Weaker Than They Were
• The morns are meeker than they were
• The nuts are getting brown -- The berry's
• cheek is plumper -- The Rose is out of town.
• The Maple wears a gayer scarf -- The field
• a scarlet gown -- Lest I should be old
• fashioned I'll put a trinket on.

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Poetry, cont.

• A Sepal, Petal, And A Thorn
• A sepal, petal, and a thorn Upon a common
• summer's morn -- A flask of Dew -- A Bee
• or two -- A Breeze -- a caper in the trees
• And I'm a Rose!

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Poetry, cont.

• Its All I Have To Bring Today
• It's all I have to bring today -- This, and my
  heart beside -- This, and my heart, and all the
  fields -- And all the meadows wide -- Be sure you
  count -- should I forget Some one the sum could
  tell -- This, and my heart, and all the Bees
  Which in the Clover dwell.

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Emily Dickinson Photographs