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3. EMILY

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.