1. Emily Dickinson
Ms. De La O
English 9

2. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Born December 10, 1830, Amherst, MA
Religious
Well Off
1840: educated at the nearby Amherst Academy
English, classical literature, and Latin
1847: began attending Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
Restricted herself to household work and writing poetry

3. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Ten poems published during life
Relationships? Wrote “passionate” poetry
“Master”
Sister-in-law Susan Gilbert
Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 of a kidney disease
40 hand-bound volumes containing more than 1,700 of her poems.
Published by Thomas H. Johnson in 1955.

4. The Poetry Known for using poetry as private observation.
Autobiographical
Carefully crafted in rhyme and meter.
Protestant Hymn
Lyrical
Single speaker