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Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts(garden) The Evergreens – the home of Emily’s brother Austin and her sister-in-law Susan. The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts(bedroom) The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts(Dress Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) (1) Life A. She was born in a Puritan’s family. Her father was a famous lawyer. B. She received college education. C. She lived a leisure and simple life and kept single all her life. She enjoyed gardening and writing and tried to avoid visitors. (Her life style is similar with Jane Austen’s.) D. She wrote 1775 poems, but only seven of them published in her life time. E. Before her death, she asked her sister to burn all her poems. However, her sister published those beautiful poems. (2) Her life story Emily Dickinson , born in Amherst, Massachusetts on Dec. 10, 1830, was the best poetess American ever created. She was a daughter of a prominent lawyer and politician. She did not receive much formal education but read widely at home. Actually, during the narrow span of her lifetime, she kept staying at home except for a few short trips to Boston or Philadelphia. Emily Dickinson was a witty woman, sensitive, full of humanity and with a genius for poetry. While she was living in almost total seclusion, she wrote in secret whatever she was able to feel, to see, to hear and whatever she was able to imagine. She wrote whenever and wherever. Although she guarded her poems even from her family, 1775 poems were discovered and published after her death. However, as the only noteworthy woman poet in American literature of the 19th century, she had only seven of her poems published during her lifetime, and it was not until the beginning of the 20th century that her genius was widely recognized. (3) Analysis of Her A. Strong influence of Puritanism on her thought (pessimism and tragic tone of her poems) B. Care about death and immortality (1/3 of all her poems