Emily_Elizabeth_Dickinson简介.pptVIP

1、her life 2、Literary Career 3、her theory about poem Dickenson was born on December10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her grandfather was a founder of Amherst College. Her father and her brother were lawyers. She was the second child in the well-to-do family and attended Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She did not travel much. In 1854 she went to Washington D.C. for a short time because her father served a term in the U. S. Congress. About the same time she went to Philadelphia for a visit enamored with a married clergyman, Charles Wadsworth. The range of her worldly experience was small by any standards. She spent her whole life in the small town of Amherst. After 1872 she scarcely ever left her own house and yard, not merely that she did not travel but that she did not go outside, but she kept in touch with her friends through letters, short poems, and small gifts. Abnormally shy and retiring, she led an inactive life of a recluse. Later in her life Dickenson began to dress all in white as if she were a young schoolgirl. Dickinson never married. Her life style was eccentric. Hers was an inward life. She deliberately chose to lead an inward life so that she could achieve personal integrity. She was no longer able to accept Christianity as her parents had, but she studied the Bible and many of her poems resemble hymns in form. Dickenson was encouraged to write verse by Benjamin F.’Newton, her father’s apprentice in the law office before his death in 1853. Newton improved her literary and cultural tastes and influenced her ideas on religion. She referred to him as “a friend, who taught me immortality”. Her next teacher was Charles Wadsworth, a married minister who provided her with intellectual challenge and contact with the outside world. He maybe the model for the lover in her poems. Her third advisor and friend was Thomas Higginson, an intelligent and sympa