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1、Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 into a Calvinist family of Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley. Emily was an energetic and outgoing woman while attending the Academy and Seminary. It was later, during her mid-twenties that E
2、mily began to grow reclusive. In the years that followed, she seldom left her house and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an intense impact on her thoughts and poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she met on a tri
3、p to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly after a visit to her home in 1860, and his departure gave rise to a heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson, who deeply admired him. By the 1860s, she lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world, but actively maintained many co
4、rrespondences and read widely.ExitContinueShe is, in a sense, a link between her era and the literary sensitivities of the turn of the century. She never married, and she led an unconventional life that was outwardly uneventful but was full of inner intensity. She loved nature and found deep inspira
5、tion in the birds, animals, plants, and changing seasons of the New England countryside.We find no mention of the war or any other great national event in her poetry. She lived a quiet, very private life in her little hometown of Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson spent the latter part of her life as
6、 a recluse, due to an extremely sensitive psyche and possibly to make time for writing (for stretches of time she wrote about one poem a day). Her day also included moneymaking for her attorney father, a prominent figure in Amherst who became a member of Congress. Of all the great writers of the nin
7、eteenth century, she had the least influence on her times. Yet, because she was cut off from the outside world, she was able to create a very personal and pure kind of poetry. Since her death, her reputation has grown enormously and her poetry is now seen as very modern for its time.Emily Dickinson
8、(1830-1886) ExitContinueEmily Dickinson (1830-1886) Features Dickinsons terse, frequently imagistic style is even more modern and innovative than Whitmans. She never uses two words when one will do, and combines concrete things with abstract ideas in an almost proverbial, compressed style. Her best
9、poems have no fat; many mock current sentimentality, and some are even heretical. She sometimes shows a terrifying existential awareness. Like Poe, she explores the dark and hidden part of the mind, dramatizing death and the grave. Yet she also celebrated simple objects - a flower, a bee. Her poetry
10、 exhibits great intelligence and often evokes the agonizing paradox of the limits of the human consciousness trapped in time. She had an excellent sense of humor, and her range of subjects and treatment is amazingly wide. Her poems are generally known by the numbers assigned them in Thomas H. Johnso
11、ns standard edition of 1955. They bristle with odd capitalization and dashes. ExitContinueThe subjects of Dicksons poetry are the traditional ones of love, nature, religion, and mortality, seen through her puritan eyes, or as she described it, “ New Englandly”. Much of the dramatic tension stems fro
12、m her religious doubt; she was unable to accept the orthodox religious faith of her friends and schoolmates, yet she longed for the comfort and emotional stability that such faith could bring. Many of her lyrics, in their mixture of rebellious and reverent sentiments, illustrate this conflict. Her p
13、oetry is also notable for its technical irregularities, which alarmed her early editors and reviewers. Her characteristic stanza is four lines long, and most poems consist of just two stanzas. She often separated her words with dashes, which tend to relieve the density of the poems and introduce int
14、o them moments of speculative silence. Other characteristics of her style: sporadic capitalization of nouns; convoluted and ungrammatical phrasing; off- rhymes; broken meters; bold, unconventional, and often startling metaphors; and aphoristic wit, all these have greatly influenced 20th century poet
15、s and contributed to Dickinsons reputation as one of the greatest and most innovative poets of 19th century American literature.Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) ExitContinueEarly Life She was born to religious, well-to-do family and had a normal childhood in Amherst, Massachusetts. Everyone expected her
16、to marry and raise a family like most women of her class. This all suddenly changed when she was 24.She became a poet and recluse. “Dickinson used precise language and unique poetic forms to simultaneously reveal and conceal her private thoughts and feelings” (Elements of Literature 345). What happe
17、ned to turn a young girl into an unrecognized poet who never left her house?What would cause a young woman of 24 suddenly to isolate herself within her yard and house and ignore the world outside?Speculations about Why Went to DC with her father, a congressman, because she had fallen in love with a
18、married lawyer, who soon died of TB. There fell in love with another married man, a minister. He moved to San Francisco in 1862. About this time she wrote, “I sing as the boy does by the burying ground, because I am afraid.”Return to Amherst Within a few years, she had retreated from all social life
19、 in Amherst. Always wearing white, like the bride she would never be, she remained in her parents house and restricted herself to household work and writing poetry, which she would sometimes send to people as gifts for valentines or birthdays, along with a pie or cookies.Only a few of her poems were
20、 published in her lifetime. She sent four of them to a critic, Mr. Higginson, asking for his help. When he sent suggestions for changing her poems, she replied in a letter, “Thank you for the surgery; it was not so painful as I supposed. I bring you others, as you ask” (Higginson). After her death,
21、friends and relatives found bundles of her poems, which they edited and “corrected” and had published in installments. In 1955, Thomas H. Johnson finally published a collection of her poems that had not been “corrected.” These are the versions we read today. Here are two versions of one stanza of on
22、e of her poems. The first is unedited; the second has been “corrected.”We passed the School, where Children stroveAt recessin the RingWe passed the Fields of Gazing GrainWe passed the Setting SunWe passed the school where children playedTheir lessons scarcely done;We passed the fields of gazing grai
23、n,We passed the setting sun.See the differences? How does the poem change?Why was she a poet?Many people have commented that there are no great woman artists. Would Emily Dickinson have become such a renowned poet if she had married and had children?What evidence is there in her poetry that she had
24、a rich emotional life in spite of the fact that she rarely left home?Was She Weird? Known for being a recluse, she didnt leave her familys homestead for any reason after the late 1860s. She almost always wore white. She often lowered snacks and treats in baskets to neighborhood children from her win
25、dow, careful never to let them see her face.What sort of poet was she? Dickinson is known for using poetry as private observation. Her poems are carefully crafted in rhyme and meter. A Poet Writes about Dickinson:We think of her hidden in a white dress among the folded linens and sachets of well-kep
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