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EMILY
DICKINSON
By: McKala
Robinson
PROFESSIONAL LIFE
 Emily Dickinson is well know for her powerful and unique
writing and also her unusually life and self imposed social
seclusion.
 She expressed far-reaching ideas; in the middle of
contradiction and uncertainty, her poetry has an actual
capacity to move and provoke readers
 Emily Dickinson's was the most wholly private literary career of
any major American writer. Many of her poems have been
published by her sister after Emily died.
 Seven of her poems were actually published in her lifetime.
 A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry
became available for the first time in 1955, after her death,
when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published.
 During her career Emily wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems.
PERSONAL LIFE
 Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in
Amherst, Massachusetts, on December
10, 1830, into a prominent, but not
wealthy family.
 Emily’s Father was a warm and loving
person, but her mother was cold and
remote.
 Her father made sure that Emily was well
educated and very well behaved.
 Dickinson was traumatized from a young
age by the "deepening menace" of death,
after a second cousin grew ill and died.
CRITICISM OF DICKINSON
The initial criticism of Emily’s work, following
the 1890 publication of Poems of Emily
Dickinson was unfavorable, but her work also
received a popular expression of approval.
Willis Buckingham has noted that her readers
often adored Dickinson's "inspired" thoughts
and emotions rather than her poetic
technique.
Critics have established Dickinson's esteemed
reputation as an American poet.
THIS IS MY LETTER
This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,-The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.
Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countr ymen,
Judge tenderly of me!
By: Emily Dickinson
One sound device used
in this poem is
alliteration, which is the
"th" sound in "This is my
letter to the World" .
Another sound device
stated would be
consonance, which is the
ending "t" sound in "That
never wrote to Me" .
THIS IS MY LETTER
 Emily’s poem, This is My Letter, is not literally about a
letter. She wants to tell people things she has learned in
her life, that she wished someone would have told her.