2.  Emily Dickinson was born in
Amherst, Massachusetts
 She went to Amherst Academy
 She attended Mount Holyoke Female
Seminary in South Hadley
 By 1860’s, she had lived almost
completely isolated from the world

3.  Her loneliness and isolation led her to
write poems
 She just wrote and wrote and wrote
 No one else in her family liked writing, so
it was a way for her to
get away from the world

4.  Emily Dickinson was known for almost
always writing in a rhythm called iambic
 She thought about what she wanted to
write , then worked on it until she could fit it
in the pattern
FUN FACT: Iambic was a rhythm of a
short, then long syllables repeating.

5.  Emily was born on December 10, 1830 in
Massachusetts
 She was part of an important
family, which made people
disappointed when she was shy, for life
then, depended on your status
 She died on May 15, 1886 at the age of
55

6.  No one knows exactly why but it is often
thought that Emily was lonely and
putting her imagination into
unpredictable words helped
 It is also thought that she liked to find
ordinary things and pick out the
wonderful possibilities from them

7.  Emily’s mother was Emily Norcross Dickinson and she
was known for her fine cooking
 Emily’s brother was Austin Dickinson, known for his
brightness
 Her father was Edward Dickinson who was a lawyer
 Emily Dickinson was shy, but had a great imagination
 She enjoyed reading and also enjoyed simple
pleasures
 She loved school but by the time she was 40, she
almost never left home
 Emily Dickinson made objects seem very real and
vivid in her poems and was very descriptive

8.  Emily Dickinson’s family adored Emily
 Once, when Emily’s niece, Mattie, was
angry with a playmate she shouted the
worst thing she could think of, “You
haven’t got an Aunt Emily!”
 During her lifetime, she wrote more than
1,700 poems!

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