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EMILY DICKINSON

By Sylvia Shuier Wang
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BIOGRAPHY

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830,

Her father, Edward Dickinson was a lawyer in Amherst and a trustee of Amherst College, Emily Dickinson's grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College

Emily Dickinson left school as a teenager, eventually living a reclusive life on the family homestead. There, she secretly created bundles of poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Due to a discovery by her sister Lavinia, Dickinson's remarkable work was published after her death on May 15, 1886 in Amherst, and she is now considered one of the most important 19th century American poets.
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GREATEST WORK

like most writers, Emily Dickinson wrote about what she knew and about what intrigued her, but she mostly like to wrote about the wonders of nature, the identity of the self, death and immortality, and love.

The most famous poem by Emily Dickinson, Hope is the thing with feathers is one of the best known short poems in all of her works,

in this poem, Emily Dickinson wrote that “Hope is the thing with feathers, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.” It is a reminder that telling us hope is something that lives inside us all, and hope will never give up on anyone.

SIGNIFICANCE

Emily Dickinson's poems have had a remarkable influence in American literature. Using original wordplay, unexpected rhymes, and sudden line breaks, she bends literary conventions, demonstrating a deep and respectful understanding of formal poetic structure even as she seems to defy its restrictions.
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REACTION

What i like Emily Dickinson is that she always stood up for what she believes in and did what she thought was right. She even learned to read and write when females were not supposed to. She introduced the world to a new kind of writing and poetry. Emily wrote odd poems that were different from other people's and she expressed her feelings in her own way. It changed the way people think about things and how they feel about them.

WHAT FACTORS INFLUENCE EMILY DICKINSON’S WORK THEME?

Like i mention before, Emily Dickinson likes to write about nature, immortality, love and death.

based on my research, after she dropped out from school and started staying at home, she became a gardener for her life,

nature is an emblem of immortality for her, she spiritualizes Nature and discovers God in it, there is even a book called “Emily Dickinson’s gardening life: the plants and places that inspired the iconic poet”

From this book we can see that plants are like a source of inspiration for her
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EMILY DICKINSON

“Hope is the thing with feathers”
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