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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 hav essay on emily dickinson biography ppt1 DOH