The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson

A life in Isolation

• Aim: How can we appreciate the poetry of Emily Dickinson?

• Do Now: “Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door”• What does this quote mean to you

• Aim: How can we appreciate the poetry of Emily Dickinson?

• Do Now: “Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door”• What does this quote mean to you

Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson

• Do you know who she is?

• What do you know about her?

• Do you know who she is?

• What do you know about her?

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)• Born in Massachusetts

• Lived an introverted and reclusive life

• Famous for her white cloth and reluctance to leave her room

• Fewer than a dozen of her 18,000 poems were published during her lifetime

• Topics such as death and immortality• It was after her death that her sister

discovered most of her poems and got it published

• Born in Massachusetts• Lived an introverted and reclusive

life• Famous for her white cloth and

reluctance to leave her room• Fewer than a dozen of her 18,000

poems were published during her lifetime

• Topics such as death and immortality• It was after her death that her sister

discovered most of her poems and got it published

I'm nobody, Who are you?I'm nobody, Who are you?

• ･What characteristics of Emily Dickinson are represented in the second stanza of the poem, I'm nobody, Who are you??

• ･What characteristics of Emily Dickinson are represented in the second stanza of the poem, I'm nobody, Who are you??

• I HAD no time to hate, because

• The grave would hinder me,

• And life was not so ample I

• Could finish enmity.

• Nor had I time to love; but since

• Some industry must be,

• The little toil of love, I thought,

• Was large enough for me.

• I HAD no time to hate, because

• The grave would hinder me,

• And life was not so ample I

• Could finish enmity.

• Nor had I time to love; but since

• Some industry must be,

• The little toil of love, I thought,

• Was large enough for me.

• MINE enemy is growing old,• I have at last revenge.• The palate of the hate departs;• If any would avenge,• Let him be quick, the viand flits,• It is a faded meat.• Anger as soon as fed is dead;• ‘T is starving makes it fat.

• MINE enemy is growing old,• I have at last revenge.• The palate of the hate departs;• If any would avenge,• Let him be quick, the viand flits,• It is a faded meat.• Anger as soon as fed is dead;• ‘T is starving makes it fat.

HomeworkHomework

• Read the Poem: I would not stop for death.

• What does this poem mean to you? What is Emily Dickinson trying to say?

• Why does Dickinson change from past tense to present tense with the verb "feels" (line 2, stanza 6)? Does eternity have an end?

• Read the Poem: I would not stop for death.

• What does this poem mean to you? What is Emily Dickinson trying to say?

• Why does Dickinson change from past tense to present tense with the verb "feels" (line 2, stanza 6)? Does eternity have an end?