4. Introduction
Born on December 10, 1830, in
Amherst, Massachusetts
An introvert writer
During her lifetime only 10 of her
nearly 1.800 poems were published
Emily Dickinson is known for her
poems about love, loss, mortality, and
the natural world.
Emily Dickinson is widely recognized
as one of the greatest American poets
of the 19th century.
Died of kidney disease at the age of 55.
EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON
(1830-1886)
5. Her writing style:
- Lack of title
- Best known for her use of:
• * Perfect rhyme
• * Dashes
• * Capitalization
-> Both the use of dashes and the use of capitals
to stress and personify common nouns.
6. - First published in 1891
- A short lyric poem
-Literary period: Romantic
THEMES:
- This short poem speaks about
the idea of a persona or a
person’s identity.
- Isolation, privacy, and distinct
identity are the major themes of
the poem.
