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prank on Valentine‘s day, birthdays, and other such occasions. After her graduation at seventeen she entered the nearby Mt. Holy yoke Female Seminary (now Mt. Holy yoke College). However she was so homesick that she returned to her home－which she never again left for more than a few days at a time－before the end of the school year. Part of the reason for her unhappiness at Mt. Holy yoke, as we learn from her letters, was the religious revival then sweeping New England. The deeply orthodox headmistress concentrated on making it effective in school and Emily was the only student not caught up in the emotional ―rebirth in Christ‖ there. But Emily Dickinson studied the Bible and wrote something about religion although she didn‘t believe it.

When she began writing poetry, Emily had relatively little formal education. She did know Shakespeare and classical mythology and was especially interested in woman authors such as Elizabeth Browning and the Bronte sisters. She was also acquainted with the works of Emerson, Thoreau and Hawthorne. Though she did not believe in the conventional religion of her family, she had studied the Bible, and many of her poems resemble hymns in form.

There were several men who, at different times in her life, acted as teacher or master to Emily. The first was Benjamin Newton, a young lawyer in her father‘s law office who improved her literary and cultural tastes and influenced her ideas on religion; she refers to him as ―a friend,

who taught me immorality.2‖

Emily‘s next teacher was Charles Wadsworth, a married, middle aged minister who provided her with intellectual challenge and contact with the outside world. It appears that she felt affection for him that he could not return, and when he moved to San Francisco, in 1862 she removed herself from society even more than she had before. Wadsworth may have been the model for the love in her poems, though it is just as likely that the literary figure is purely imaginary.

Actually, her good education and two very important teachers gave Emily Dickinson a lot of help on her poetry writing. And that is why she wrote a lot of poems about love, religion. Part II The style of Emily Dickinson‘s poems

Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have not titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines or part of it.

In her poetry there is no a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis. The form of her poetry is more or less like that of the hymns in community irregular.

Dickinson‘s irregular or sometimes inverted sentence structure also confuses readers. However, her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.

Her poems are usually short, rarely more than twenty lines, and many of them are centered on a single image or symbol and focused on one subject matter. Due to her deliberate seclusion, her poems tend to be very personal and meditative. Unconventional metaphors are among her greatest accomplishment. She uses not only simple images to indicate universal things but also expresses her personal ideas by significant images. She frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and personification to vivify some abstract ideas. Her dramatic monologues convey rich complexities of human emotion –elation and depression, faith and doubt, hope and despair. Dickinson‘s poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness; and her limited private world never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination

Part III

In the following paragraph, some of the poem will be used to indicate the poetess‘ insight of death, love nature and religion. Death

Emily Dickinson wrote many poems concerned with death. During her life time, Emily Dickinson wrote about 500 poetry of death, which consisted of one third of all poetry. Compared with other writers contemporary, she is the poetess who wrote death most. Her poems

concern death, ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. She looked at death from the point of view of both the living and the dying. She even imagined her own death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknown, such as I heard a Fly buzz－when I died 3,Because I could not stop for death4 and I felt a funeral in my brain. I heard a Fly buzz－when I died5 is one of Emily Dickinson‘s most well-known poem about death. This poem is a description of the moment of death I heard a Fly buzz－when I died－ The stillness in the Room Was like the stillness in the Air－ Between the Heaven of storm－

The eyes around －had wrung them dry－ And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset－when the King Be witnessed－in the room－

I willed my keepsakes－signed away what portion of me be Assignable－and then it was There interposed a Fly－