Emily Dickinson
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Dickinson was an American poet, born in Amherst, Massachusetts.
On September 7, 1840, Dickinson and her sister Lavina started attending Amherst Academy. Dickinson attended the academy for seven years, where she studied English, classical literature, Latin, and mental philosophy.
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When Dickinson was eighteen, a family friend, Benjamin Franklin Newton, introduced her to the writings of William Wordsworth and gave her the first book collection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's poetry. Dickinson admitted that the gift gave her a liberating feeling.
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"When a little girl, I had a friend, who taught me immortality-but venturing too near himself-he never returned."
-Emily Dickinson on Newton
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Style
Dickinson's poetry style is unique for the era she was writing in. Her works contained short lines, lack titles, unconventional capitalization and punctuation, and slant rhyme. Many of her poems have the themes of death and immortality, two things that occurred frequently in letters she exchanged with friends.
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Dickinson was one of America's first female poets, however, throughout her lifetime she was not recognized as a poet. Dickinson is known as a prolific versifier. Fewer than a dozen of her 1,800 works were published during her lifetime.
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Some of Dickinson's most famous works include
•Hope is the Thing With Feathers
•"Faith" is a Fine Invention
•I Felt A Funeral in My Brain
•A Great Hope Fell
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"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul- and sings the tune without the words- and never stops at all."
-"Hope is The Thing With Feathers" by Emily Dickinson
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Why should Emily Dickinson be placed in the AP Hall of Fame?
Dickinson influenced American Literature with her works, during her lifetime and beyond. Dickinson showed through her work that you can free rhythm and rhyme in your writing without abandoning it. Dickinson showed that there was an able compromise between free verse and prosodic verse. Also, Dickinson is an inspiration to not only young women, but all people, to free their emotion and not to be afraid of what lies ahead of them.
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