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Emily Dickinson (works (allowed only 7 poems out of 2000 to be published,…
Emily Dickinson
works
allowed only 7 poems out of 2000 to be published
wrote as a form of communication
letter-writing, only form of contact with others
1890: "Poems by Emily Dickinson" with some corrections
1955: complete edition of her poems by Thomas Johnson
1958: collection of her letters
style
poems generally short and organised in quatrains
poems without title
language: monosyllabic words, common words that come alive in usual contexts.
use of dash
rhetorical devices
free use of rhyme
Life
Born in 1830, Amherst, Massachussets
middle-class family
father deeply influenced her emotional development and religious beliefs
life of seclusion, never left her father's house
hid her mind
themes
eternal issues of life
death and loss, love, time, fear, sorrow, despair, God, Nature, man's relation to universe
death
regarded as a liberation from a state of anxiety
love
nature
source of wonder or fear
education
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
she refused to declare her faith in public and returned home