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I like how you gave more specific information on her that not many people talk about. It's interesting how she grew up.

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i like how you included the loss in the war that contributed to her writing

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I like how you showed how the war affected her. She wrote about many different things but I feel like the civil war is one of the most important things she wrote about.

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Only about 10-11 of her works got published. Her grandfather helped found the school she went to

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I really like how you went into detail about her writing style, and how specific you were .

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I like how you talked about some of the themes she wrote about. I think her style of writing is very unique.

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The death of family and friends influenced her poetry, and it was also written during the civil war. She did many of her works while she was still a teen.

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I like how unique it was and how much detail it had than the others

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She was born in Amherst Massachusetts, to a well known and wealthy family.

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When she was 30, she started developing her more unique style of writing using specific syntax, line breaks, and punctuation. The themes of this era really defined her work and her legacy.

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This is very interesting because I never knew this. I find it cool how her father was a lawyer.

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I liked how you added the detail that she liked to use dashes and slants I didn't know that was something she liked to incorporate into her poetry.

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in her last trip to Amherst were in 1864 and 1865 , when she shared her cousin Louisa. She would often send most of her poems to her sister in law susan

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People who knew her more so knew her as a gardener rather than a poet. She was also very reclusive.

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During the civil war is when Emily wrote most of her poems, which could have been an inspirational factor for her. She was also very affected by the war, with hardships, tragedy and loss.

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she was the second child born, her family had modern privilege. she lived in a building made by her grandfather, her father was a forceful and prosperous lawyer.

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She became a poet in her teens. she later moved back to her homestead. here she would write many poems while surrounded by family. this was during the civil war.

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Emily started writing in her teen years. The Civil War and her personal life affected how she wrote her poems. When her brother and close friend got married, moved onto the renovated homestead, and had 3 kids, it brought a lot of joy to Dickinson's life and she was able to grow and write about her own plants and the homestead itself.

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during the civil war she would write her poems and express the tragedies she saw.but she wouldn't just focus on the war that was happening she also wrote about everyday life

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Emily Dickinson's poetry style used many metaphors and talked about topics such as religion, friendships and law. She used slant poetry, which is words that dont exactly rhyme.

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she was important because of her poetry style. Her poetry was lyrical and emotional, but her verses were also intellectual

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Emily Dickinson used a very original style of poetry , and expressed her words in a sort of lyrical way. Most of her poems were written in 1st person.

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Emily Dickinson's poetry style was unique. However, she did write about her observations of her surroundings like most poets. She used thoughts and feelings. She also used "I" in many of her poems, so the reader feels like it is addressed to them as they read it. She uses an organized sequence in her own unique way to write her poems.

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Her writing style was in lyrical poetry. she wrote about what she had experienced. she also liked to use dashes and slant rhyme.

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her style of poetry was so unique for its time because it how lyrical it was and she expressed herself so well it like you can feel what she felt in that moment

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her poetry style was portrayed as not a poem but lyrics. her poems were usually spoken through one person and in the first person

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I liked your point on how Emily Dickinson didn't like to go outside because I had no idea, I found it very intriguing.

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Out of Emily's 1800 poems, only 10 would be published during her life, and the rest she would keep to herself.

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During the Civil War Emily would write most of her poems. Emily was affected by the Civil War and this would affect her poems theme.

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I like how you talked about the type of themes she would write in her poems.

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Emily Dickinson was a middle child out of her three siblings, her brother, William Austin Dickinson and her sister, William Austin Dickinson. Her and her siblings all went to the same one-room school in Amherst and later actually mentioned how she enjoyed school.

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Emily Dickinson went to Amherst Academy from 1840 to 1847 to study about science and literature. She also studied a little bit at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1847 but left a year later in 1848 due to illness.

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I found it most interesting that her work didn't gain popularity until 4 years after she died

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I really like how you mentioned something about her childhood and how she started writing from a young age.

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Hey Emiliano, I think that you were very descriptive with Emily's poetry sytle

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During her adult life, Emily Dickinson was very reclusive and would stay close to home and only see close friends and family

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She's considered one of the most important American poets of all time.

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Digital Archive of her poems, manuscripts & letters: https://www.emilydickinson.org/links

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She was born in Massachusetts to a prominent family. In her early years, she studied many different subjects. After experiencing many close deaths, she became more reclusive and isolated. She was considered to be eccentric by the locals.

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Emily Dickinson's first volume of poetry was published in 1890, but didn't find success until 4 years after her death. She began writing poetry when she was just a teen in 1858.

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Her style of poetry was more lyrical and expressed her feelings. she often did her poems in first person and free wrote a lot and made it into poems.

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Hey Leo I like how you offer more information of why not all of her Poem where publish and where they went as well.

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Emily Dickinson was an American poet from the 19th century. Despite composing nearly 1,800 poems, only a few were published during her lifetime. Her status as one of the most significant poets in the history of American literature.

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Emily was the 2nd child out of the 3 kids, she was very smart as a kid and love to write. She pursued her dreams to be a poet later on. She didn't start poetry until late in her teenage years

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Emily Dickinson began writing poetry in her teen years, and by the time she turned 35, she had written around 800 poems. She only shared some of them with close friends and family

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Can you add more info, other than her house becoming a museum? Your response is very vague and has barely any info.

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She had 10 poems published, and were all published anonymously or heavily edited and changed.

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Her poetry style was more of lyrics as short poems with a single speaker that express thought and feeling. she also often did her poems in first person.

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Hey Brayden I thought the facts you used were really interesting. I wonder why she didn't release more poems than she actually did

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I like how you gave details about how many poems Emily has created.

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could you add a bit more info? Your writing is very vague.

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Emily suffered from health problems leaving her poetry short lived but the poems she wrote were life changing she traveled with her sister and father to Washington D.C.

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her family home is a museum

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Emily Dickinson would write her poems by using lyrical poetry, expressing thought and feeling during her poems. Her poems would express the themes of nature, death, and love.

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She commonly wrote about things that confused her and what she was interested. She involved lots of universalizing themes based on her stances. Poems tended to be lyrics a lot of them were on the shorter side. Most are all in the first person.

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I like how you describe that her themes are what made her style unforgettable.

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She was born in 1830 and lived with many famous writers, like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Benjamin Franklin Newton. She was greatly influenced by these writers and other popular writings, like the bible.

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By the time Dickinson turned 35, she had composed more than 1100 concise, powerful lyrics that astutely examine pain, grief, joy, love, nature, and art.

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Hey Alexa, thank you for informing us about how Emily dickinson helped form education in England.

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Micah I like how you give detail and how you explained how she has health problems.

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She was more social in her younger years, only growing reclusive AFTER the civil war. Showing that it likely had a huge impact on her mental state to live through that historical period.

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Emily Dickinson wrote about 1800 poems and all of them were described as very lyrical and very well made.

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Emily only had 10 of her poems published, she was not a very social person, she suffered from health problems

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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who was reclusive and wrote nearly 1,800 poems, but only a dozen were published during her lifetime

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I like how use mentioned she points out the truth and puts light to it for her poetry.

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In 1855 Dickinson traveled to Washington D.C. with her sister and father who was then ending his term as U.S. Representative and on the way back made an extended stay in Philadelphia where she heard the preaching of Charles Wordsworth.

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She was usually very isolated but tended to read about things going on around her. Once major political events occurred she started to right more about what was going on around her. The abolitionist movement affected some of her writing. Slave debate affected her writing

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She became extremely active in writing in her teen years, this period, which scholars identify as 1858-1865, overlaps with the most significant event of American nineteenth-century history, the Civil War. During this time, Dickinson’s personal life also underwent tremendous change.

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Her poems explore big themes like death, nature, the soul, and hope through imagery and bold metaphors. They show emotional depth to make her style unique and unforgettable.

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She was born in 1830 but started becoming increaslying isolated after the 1860's.

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it was interesting knowing that her poems are lyrics. I also liked knowing how she used images to point out universal themes

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Hey Irvin, I like how detailed your response is and it doesnt just focus on one topic it streches to many different things.

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Only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems are known to have been published in her lifetime. Devoted to private pursuits, she sent hundreds of poems to friends and correspondents while apparently keeping the greater number to herself.

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Emily Dickinson wrote about what she knew and about what intrigued her. A keen observer, she used images from nature, religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities to probe universal themes: the wonders of nature, the identity of the self, death and immortality, and love. In this poem she probes nature’s mysteries through the lens of the rising and setting sun.

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Hey,Micah l like how you gave details about her style including how she used dots.

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Emily Dickinson had a unique poetry style that used many dashes, and with rhymes that made some poems able to be sung like folk songs.

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Emersyn By the time Dickinson turned 35, she had composed more than 1100 concise, powerful lyrics that astutely examine pain, grief, joy, love, nature, and art.

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Emersyn By the time Dickinson turned 35, she had composed more than 1100 concise, powerful lyrics that astutely examine pain, grief, joy, love, nature, and art.

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Her families house is now a museum you can tour, her father was a senator, and several mysterious love affairs accured.

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She was born on December 10, 1830, in Massachusetts. she wrote almost 1,800 poems, but only a few were published while she was alive. she loved nature as well

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She grew up with a strong family in New England and began writing poetry in her teen years. She also was inspired by the Civil War.

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Only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems are known to have been published in her lifetime. Devoted to private pursuits, she sent hundreds of poems to friends and correspondents while apparently keeping the greater number to herself

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She was the second out of three children in her family. She loved her teacher as a kid and loved to learn. She was very religious during her life. Dickinson didn't start writing until her late teen years. Her family was pretty well off they lived in a mansion her early years of life.

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Emily Dickinson has a unique poetry style by always thinking outside of the box. She knows the limitations and then reaches farther to write on an abstract level.

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Emily Dickinson would write about things like: nature, religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities. She also punctuated her poems with dashes

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Emily Dickinson spent most of her life in seclusion in her family home.

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Her style uses a lot of breaks in the form of dashes, she uses a lot of imagery to form her poems and it seems like they were inspired by religious hymns.

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Emily Dickinson read about the world around her, but for most of her adult life, she did not live in it. She grew up with a strong family in New England, got a good education, was inspired by all the creativity happening during the Civil War, and later chose to live a quiet life.

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She begain to write poetry in her teen years

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Emily Dickinson (born December 10, 1830, Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 15, 1886, Amherst) was an American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision.

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shaped by her influential New England family her education the intense creativity during the American Civil War.

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Emily Dickinson wrote about what she knew and about what intrigued her

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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830,in the town of Amherst, in Massachusetts U.S and died on May 15, 1886 in the town of Amherst and lived with Walt Whitman and she was the second of three children.

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Dickinson’s poems are lyrics, generally defined as short poems with a single speaker who expresses thought and feeling. As in most lyric poetry

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Emily Dickinson biography poetry style including reclusive life and unconventional style. she uses photos in her poem.

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I like how she uses a variety of poetic devices in her poetry. she points out truth and puts light to it.

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Her poems are lyrics defined as short poems with a single speaker who expresses thought and feeling. She also used images from nature, religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities to probe universal themes.

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Emily uses a lot of imagery in her poems along with dots and dashes. She would describe abstract concepts using imagery

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Emily Dickinson  wrote about what she knows and what made her mad.  Like just about all of Dickinson’s poems, this poem has no title.

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Emily Dickinson  wrote about what she knows and what made her mad.  Like just about all of Dickinson’s poems, this poem has no title.

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https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/poetry/tips-for-reading/major-characteristics-of-dickinsons-poetry/

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Using the poem below as an example, this section will introduce you to some of the major characteristics of Emily Dickinson's poetry.

I'll tell you how the Sun rose -
A Ribbon at a time -
The steeples swam in Amethyst
The news, like Squirrels, ran -
The Hills untied their Bonnets -
The Bobolinks - begun -
Then I said softly to myself -
"That must have been the Sun"!
But how he set - I know not -
There seemed a purple stile
That little Yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while -
Till when they reached the other side -
A Dominie in Gray -
Put gently up the evening Bars -
And led the flock away -
(Fr204)

Theme and Tone

Like most writers, Emily Dickinson wrote about what she knew and about what intrigued her. A keen observer, she used images from nature, religion, law, music, commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities to probe universal themes: the wonders of nature, the identity of the self, death and immortality, and love. In this poem she probes nature's mysteries through the lens of the rising and setting sun.

Sometimes with humor, sometimes with pathos, Dickinson writes about her subjects. Remembering that she had a strong wit often helps to discern the tone behind her words.

Form and Style

Dickinson's poems are lyrics, generally defined as short poems with a single speaker (not necessarily the poet) who expresses thought and feeling. As in most lyric poetry, the speaker in Dickinson's poems is often identified in the first person,"I." Dickinson reminded a reader that the "I" in her poetry does not necessarily speak for the poet herself: "When I state myself, as the Representative of the Verse - it does not mean - me - but a supposed person" (L268). In this poem the "I" addresses the reader as "you."

Like just about all of Dickinson's poems, this poem has no title. Emily Dickinson titled fewer than 10 of her almost 1800 poems. Her poems are now generally known by their first lines or by the numbers assigned to them by posthumous editors.

For some of Dickinson's poems, more than one manuscript version exists. "I'll tell you how the Sun rose" exists in two manuscripts. In one, the poem is broken into four stanzas of four lines each; in the other, as you see here, there are no stanza breaks.

The poem describes the natural phenomena of sunrise and sunset, but it also describes the difficulties of perceiving the world around us. Initially, "I" exhibits confidence in describing a sunrise. As the poem, like the day, continues, "I" becomes less certain about what it knows: "But how he [the sun] set - I know not - / There seemed a purple stile."

One of Dickinson's special gifts as a poet is her ability to describe abstract concepts with concrete images. In many Dickinson poems, abstract ideas and material things are used to explain each other, but the relation between them remains complex and unpredictable. Here the sunrise is described in terms of a small village, with church steeples, town news, and ladies' bonnets. The sunset is characterized as the gathering home of a flock. The shifting tone between the beginning and the end of the poem, the speaker's more confident telling of the sun's rise than of how its sets, suggests that more abstract questions about the mystery of death lurk within these images.

Meter and Rhyme

The meter, or the rhythm of the poem, is usually determined not just by the number of syllables in a line but by how the syllables are accented. Dickinson's verse is often associated with common meter, which is defined by alternating lines of eight syllables and six syllables (8686). In common meter, the syllables usually alternate between unstressed (indicated by a ˘ over the syllable) and stressed (′). This pattern-one of several types of metrical "feet"-is known as an "iamb." Common meter is often used in sung music, especially hymns (think "Amazing Grace"). {Below is an example of common meter from "I'll tell you how the Sun rose."}

However, as Cristanne Miller writes in Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson and the Nineteenth Century, Emily Dickinson experimented with a variety of metrical and stanzaic forms, including short meter (6686) and the ballad stanza, which depends more on beats per line (usually 4 alternating with 3) than on exact syllable counts. Even in common meter, she was not always strict about the number of syllables per line, as the first line in "I'll tell you how the Sun rose" demonstrates.

As with meter, Dickinson's employment of rhyme is experimental and often not exact. Rhyme that is not perfect is called "slant rhyme" or "approximate rhyme." Slant rhyme, or no rhyme at all, is quite common in modern poetry, but it was less often used in poetry written by Dickinson's contemporaries. In this poem, for example, we would expect "time" to rhyme with "ran."

Punctuation and Syntax

Dickinson most often punctuated her poems with dashes, rather than the more expected array of periods, commas, and other punctuation marks. She also capitalized interior words, not just words at the beginning of a line. Her reasons are not entirely clear.

Both the use of dashes and the use of capitals to stress and personify common nouns were condoned by the grammar text (William Harvey Wells' Grammar of the English Language) that Mount Holyoke Female Seminary adopted and that Dickinson undoubtedly studied to prepare herself for entrance to that school. In addition, the dash was liberally used by many writers, as correspondence from the mid-nineteenth-century demonstrates. While Dickinson was far from the only person to employ it, she may have been the only poet to depend upon it.

While Dickinson's dashes often stand in for more varied punctuation, at other times they serve as bridges between sections of the poem-bridges that are not otherwise readily apparent. Dickinson may also have intended for the dashes to indicate pauses when reading the poem aloud.

Diction

Dickinson's editing process often focused on word choice rather than on experiments with form or structure. She recorded variant wordings with a "+" footnote on her manuscript. Sometimes words with radically different meanings are suggested as possible alternatives. Dickinson changed no words between the two versions of "I'll tell you how the Sun rose."

Because Dickinson did not publish her poems, she did not have to choose among the different versions of her poems, or among her variant words, to create a "finished" poem. This lack of final authorial choices posed a major challenge to Dickinson's subsequent editors.

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Major Characteristics of Dickinson's Poetry

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Using the poem below as an example, this section will introduce you to some of the major characteristics of Emily Dickinson's poetry. I'll tell you how the Sun rose - A Ribbon at a time - The steeples swam in Amethyst The news, like Squirrels, ran - The Hills untied their Bonnets - The Bobolinks - begun - Then I said softly to myself - "That must have been the Sun"!

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Emily dickinson begain to write poetry at a young age, she like to express herself through her poems

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i like how you said that she wrote more of what she was interested in

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I liked this fact