Kalm

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Kalm
The Dickinson project
Presented by

• Krystal Cummins
• Anabelle Acevedo
• Lusia Mora
• Maria Alvarez

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Emily Dickinson

• Born in Amherst , Massachusetts. On December 10
  1830, Died May 15 1986
• Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and
  the speakers of her poems generally live in a
  state of want, but her poems are also marked by
  the intimate recollection of inspirational
  moments which are decidedly life-giving and
  suggest the possibility of happiness. Her work
  was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets
  of seventeenth-century England, as well as her
  reading of the Book of Revelation and her
  upbringing in a Puritan New England town which
  encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and
  conservative approach to Christianity. (2)

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• The Soul unto itself (683)
• A poem by Emily Dickinson
• The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend    Or
  the most agonizing Spy    An Enemy    could
  send    Secure against its own    No treason it
  can fear    Itself    its Sovereign    of
  itself The Soul should stand in Awe  

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• There's a certain Slant of light (258)
• A poem by Emily Dickinson
• There's a certain Slant of light, Winter
  Afternoons   That oppresses, like the Heft Of
  Cathedral Tunes   Heavenly Hurt, it gives us  
  We can find no scar, But internal difference,
  Where the Meanings, are   None may teach
  it  Any   'Tis the Seal Despair   An imperial
  affliction Sent us of the air   When it comes,
  the Landscape listens   Shadows  hold their
  breath   When it goes, 'tis like the Distance On
  the look of Death  

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Emily Dickinsons Life

• Before she came to be a poet she attended Mount
  Holyoke Female Seminary, but severe homesickness
  led her to return home. She lived in a almost
  total physical isolation from the world.
• Dickinsons poetry reflects her loneliness and
  the characters of her poems generally live in the
  state of what she did.
• The war was a major issue for Emily. Her father
  whom she was close to was a part of the war
  effort which involved him in danger which sparked
  her urge to start writing poems.

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Emily Dickinsons Death

• Upon her death, Dickinson's family discovered 40
  hand bound volumes of more than 800 of her poems.
  
• The poems were initially unbound and published
  according to the aesthetics of her many early
  editors, removing her unusual and varied dashes
  and replacing them with traditional punctuation.
• Furthermore, the original order of the works was
  not restored until 1981, when Ralph W. Franklin
  used the physical evidence of the paper itself to
  restore her order.
• Many critics have argued for thematic unity in
  these small collections, believing the ordering
  of the poems to be more than chronological or
  convenient.
• The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap
  Press, 1981) remains the only volume that keeps
  the order intact.

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Work Cited

• Emily Dickinson.No date. Online image. Emily
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  p/prmPID/155gt.
• Emily Dickinson.poets.org from The Academy of
  American Poets.2005.from the Academy of American
  Poets. 28 Oct. 2005lthttp//poets.org/poet.php/prmP
  ID/155gt
• Emily Dickinson.No Date. Online image. Emily
  Dickinson. 27 Oct. 2005.lt http//rds.yahoo.com/S9
  6062883/KEmilyDickinson/v2/SIDw/lIVR/SIG12tm
  93gu7/EXP1130883949/-http3A//www.learningcommun
  ity202.org/PSHS/depts/english/lorimor/Dickinson7gt
• The Soul unto itself.poets.org The Academy of
  American Poets.2005.from the Academy of the
  American Poets. 27 Oct. 2005. 2005http//poets.org
  /viewmedia.php/prmMID/15879
• Theres a certain Slant of light.poets.org The
  Academy of American Poets.2005.from the Academy
  of the American Poets. 31 Oct. 2005.
• Emily Dickinson.No date.Online image. Emily
  Dickinson. 27 Oct. 2005.lt http//zhurnal.net/ww/zw
  ?EmilyDickinsongt.
• Emily Dickinson.Poets. org from The Academy of
  American Poets.2005.From the Academy of the
  American Poets. 31 Oct. 2005.