EMILY DICKINSON BY TAYLOR BENZEL Emily Dickinson Emily

EMILY DICKINSON BY: TAYLOR BENZEL

Emily Dickinson • Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. • She lived in isolation from the outside world and only communicated with very few people, mostly her family. • Her father served one term in congress, while her brother studied to become an attorney. Her sister lived a similar life in isolation.

Emily Dickinson • Even though she was isolated from everyone she still read and wrote poems. • The very few people she knew impacted on her thoughts and her poetry. • Dickinson wrote many poems based on her loneliness from isolating herself.

Emily Dickinson • Emily Dickinson died in Amherst in 1886. • After her death, her family found her 40 hand bound volumes of nearly 1800 of her poems. • Emily Dickinson is known as one of America’s greatest poets.

I Hide Within My Flower By Emily Dickinson I HIDE myself within my flower, That wearing on your breast, You, unsuspecting, wear me too— And angels know the rest. I hide myself within my flower, That, fading from your vase, You, unsuspecting, feel for me Almost a loneliness.

Bibliography • http: //www. poets. org/poet. php/prm. PID/155 • http: //www. biographyonline. net/poets/emily _dickinson. html • http: //www. bartleby. com/113/3007. html • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson