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Emily Dickinson (Life and Works (She decided to interrupt her studies, She…
Emily Dickinson
Life and Works
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She received her university education at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary,where she refused to declare her faith in public
She was born into a middle-class Puritan family in Amherst,Massachusetts
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Her father was a public man,a lawyer and a politician
She allowed only seven out of 2,000 poems to be printed,because they had been written for the purpose of communication,rather than for publication
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Style
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frequent use of rhetorical devices(imperfect rhymes,assonance,alliteration,paradox,metaphor)
The tone can be witty,ironic,cheerful,melancholic
She uses the dash,which provides space for thought
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Themes
Death was regarded as a liberation from a state of anxiety,and as yhe place where the human being tends to become music,perfume,passion,flight
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She wrote about Death from the point of view of the person dying and she even wrote about her own death
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Nature is presented through an objective description,by juxtaposing the thing and the soul of the observer and as a source of imagery to emphasise an abstract concept
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Poetry of isolation
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Her poetry was influenced by the Bible,Shakespeare, Milton,the Metaphysical poets and contemporary writers like Emily Bronte