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On Nature
• Dickinson‟s skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed. • On one hand ,she believed that a mythical bond between man and nature existed ,that nature revealed to man things about mankind and universe . • On the other hand she felt strongly about nature‟s inscrutability and indifference to the life of human beings. • In a word, she thought that nature was both kind and cruel, which was similar to Tennyson.
Life story
• Between 1858 and 1862, it was later discovered, she wrote like a person possessed, often producing a poem a day. It was also during this period that her life was transformed into the myth of Amherst. Withdrawing more and more, keeping to her room, sometimes even refusing to see visitors who called, she began to dress only in white—a habit that added to her reputation as an eccentric.
Life story
Life story
• As the daughter of a prominent politician, Emily had the benefit of a good education and attended the Amherst Academy(阿姆斯特学院 )from1841 to 1847, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary from1847 to 1848(圣约克山女子学 院 ). • After she returned from school , Emily began to dress all in white and refuse to see almost everyone that came to visit. And in 1862 she became a total recluse.
Life story
• Emily seldom left her father„s house. In her entire life, she took one trip to Philadelphia(费 城 )due to her eyes' problem, one to Washington, and a few trips to Boston. • Other than those occasional ventures, Emily had no extended exposure to the world outside her home town.
• Emily Dickinson was born in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily Austin (her older brother) and her younger sister Lavinia and Dickinson were nurtured in a quiet, reserved family. • Her father, an orthodox Calvinist, was a lawyer and treasurer（财务主管） of the local college. He also served in Congress. • Her motherwas a cold, religious, hard-working housewife. Her relationship with her daughter was distant. Later Dickinson wrote in a letter, that she has never had a mother.
On Poetry
• Despite its ostensible simplicity, her style is remarkable for its variety ,subtlety and richness .Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity imagination and persona. • Main themes of her poetry: Love Nature Death Immortality Religion
Life story
• The later years of Dickinson's life were primarily spent in mourning because many of the most influential and precious friendships of Emily's passed away. • On June 14, 1884 Emily's obsessions and poetic speculations started to come to a stop when she suffered the first attack of her terminal illness. On May 15, 1886 Emily took her last breath at the age of 56.
Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
A Reclusive Poet of the 19th Century •Published only 10 poems before her death. •living an unknown life. •After 70 years of her death,she begun to receive serious attention of the literary. •Being considered a pioneer in modern poet posthumously. Along with Whitman, Dickinson is one of the two giants of American poetry of the 19th century.
On Poetry
• She thought that poetry should be powerful and touching. The inspiration of the poet came from his inner world or intensity of his emotions and the past literary traditions and the noble heroes. The most dignified beauty was embodied by the active, affirmative dignity. Poetry should express ideas through concrete images. It was the poet‟s duty to express abstract ideas through vivid and fresh imagery. She was against the restriction of the traditional doctrines and argued for the depiction of one‟s inner world.
Poetic Style
• Often no titles, hence the first line of each poem is always quoted as the title • Particular stress pattern: dash“— ” • Capital letters as a means of emphasis • Brief, direct, and plai n language • Always aims on original images or symbols • Conventional meters(音韵), iambic tetrameter （四步抑扬格）, off-rhymes（无韵） • Short poetic lines, condensed by using intense metaphors（暗喻） and ellipsis（省略）
Life story
Analysis of her
Strong influence of Puritanism on her thought (pessimism and tragic tone of her poems) Care about death and immortality (1/3 of all her poems talked about these two themes.) Exploring human‟s inner world (psychology description in her poems) Severe economy of expression Original images Direct and plain language
viewpoints
• Religious views: doubts about the existence of God and the realization of after-life. • Ideas about love : unhappiness, passion • Ideas on nature: simple and harmonious • Ideas on death immortality
Poetic Style
• Regular meter—hymn meter and ballad meter, also known as Common meter • Quatrains（四行诗） • Alternating tetrameter and trimeter（三音格） • Often 1st and 3rd lines rhyme, 2nd and 4th lines rhyme in iambic pentameter • Visual and audible effects, great imagination, sincere emotions. • Her poems tend to be personal and meditative (e.g. “Because I could not stop for Death”).
On Poetry
A special characters of her poetry ---Posies and poesies 花与诗 • Dickinson, during her lifetime, “was known more widely as a gardener, perhaps, than as a poet”. During her lifetime, she assembled a collection of pressed plants in a sixty-six page leather-bound herbarium(植物标本集).