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1、Emily Dickinson,By group: 周健 杨永凤 张博 许瑶,The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts,The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts (garden),The Evergreens-the home of Emilys brother Austin and her sister-in-law Susan.,The Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts (bedroom),Emily Elizabet
2、h Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts, the second daughter of Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, Austin (her older brother) and her younger sister Lavinia were nurtured in a quiet, reserved family headed by their authoritative father Edwa
3、rd. Throughout Emilys life, her mother was not emotionally accessible, the absence of which might have caused some of Emilys eccentricity.,Being rooted in the puritanical Massachusetts of the 1800s, the Dickinson children were raised in the Christian tradition, and they were expected to take up thei
4、r fathers religious beliefs and values without argument. Later in life, Emily would come to challenge these conventional religious viewpoints of her father and the church, and the challenges she met with would later contribute to the strength of her poetry.,Analysis of her,A. Strong influence of Pur
5、itanism on her thought (pessimism and tragic tone of her poems) B. Care about death and immortality (1/3 of all her poems talked about these two themes.) C. Exploring humans inner world (psychology description in her poems) D. Severe economy of expression E. Original images F. Direct and plain langu
6、age G. Great influence on the Imagist Movement in the 20th century,Features of Her Poems,1. In subject matter Emily Dickinson was very similar to the great romantic poets of her time. Her poems are short, many of them being based on a single image or symbol. But within her little lyrics she wrote ab
7、out some of the most important things in life: love, nature, morality and immortality. She wrote about success, which she thought she never achieved; and she wrote about failure, which she considered her constant companion. She wrote of these things so brilliantly that she is now ranked as one of Am
8、ericans greatest poets.,2. Poetry is for Dickinson a means to attain pleasure, away to preach here doctrine, and a medium to express her world outlook, an outlet for her despair and a remedy to pacify her soul. Her life experience fostered her belief as an existentialist as well as a great poet.,3.
9、Despite her seclusion of life, Emily Dickinson covered a wide range of subjects in poetry. Her favorite subjects are love, death or natural beauty. In her writing she wrote about life and death, expecting to understand the meaning of life by understanding the meaning of death.,4. Living in the 19th
10、century, a comparatively religious era, she did not belong to any organized religion. However, she wrote of God, man and nature; she probed into the spiritual unrest of man and often doubted about the existence and benevolence of God, because she felt that wild nature was her church and she was able
11、 to converse directly with God there.,5. Emily Dickinson was a poet who could express feelings of deepest poignancy in terms of the true and wide saying, often in an aphoristic style. Her gemlike poems are all very short, but fresh and original, marked by the vigor of her images, the daring of her t
12、hought and the beauty of her expression.,6. Emil Dickinson wrote in the conventional metrical form, though she did not always strictly observes the rules of versification.,7. Emily Dickinson defamiliarised conventional poetic form, deliberately overusing capitalization and dashes, to make her poems
13、looking strange. In some way, she is very much similar the the style of John Donne.,Selected Poems:,Because I Could Not Stop for Death I heard a Fly BuzzWhen I Died My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close As Imperceptibly as Grief Mineby the Right of the White Election Wild NightsWild Nights A Narrow
14、Fellow in the Grass Apparently with No Surprise I Died for Beautybut Was Scarce Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant I Like to See It Lap the Miles The BrainIs Wider than the Sky,Because I Could Not Stop for Death,Stanza 1: The angel of death, in the image of kind person, comes in a carriage for the
15、 sake of the sake of immortality and the poet. Stanza 2: To show my politeness to god of death, I gave up my work and my enjoyment of life as well; I give up my life. Stanza 3: The journey of our carriage implied the experience of human life; school implied time of childhood; the fields of gazing gr
16、ain, for youth and adulthood; while the setting sun, for old age.,Stanza 4: Probably we may say the sun set before we reach the destination-the night falls, death arrives. I felt a fear and chilly after death, for my shroud is thin and my scarf too light. Despite the description of “death”, the usual gloomy and horrifying atmosphere is lightened by the poetess with the elegantly fluttering clothing she describes.,
