Emily dickinson biography ppt for kids

Title: EMILY DICKINSON


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EMILY DICKINSON
BYBRANDONCORY 3rd period Mr.Efird
(1830-1886)
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Biography of Emily Dickinson

• BORN Amherst, Massachusetts, Dec 10, 1830
• She was born to a religious and well-to-do
  family.

• As a child she was lively, well behaved, and
  obedient.
• Her poems helped initate modern poerty, as an
  enigma, a mystery, a paradox.
• She lived what some would call a short life.

  Biography ppt

  She
  died on May 15, 1886 at the age of 56.

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The Literary Period

• TRANSCENDENTALIST MOVEMENT-American
  transcendentalism was an important movement in
  philosophy and literature that flourished during
  the early to middle years of the nineteenth
  century (about 1836-1860).

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GENRE

• Emily Dickinson is known for her use of modern
  poetry
• Dickinson's works have had considerable influence
  on modern poetry. Her frequent use of dashes,
  sporadic capitalization of nouns, off-rhymes,
  broken metre, unconventional metaphors hav