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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.
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
• 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 ).
Life story
• 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.
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.
• 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.
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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.)
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.
• 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.