About Emily Dickinson
This poet lived most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
In Dickinson’s poetry, love is often shown as this kind of powerful emotion.
What is intense (or overwhelming)
The speaker expresses love through subtle, indirect language instead of being ______.
What is direct?
Repetition of consonant sounds is called this.
What is alliteration?
Dickinson was known for living a very ______ life, rarely leaving home.
Isolated
Love in her poems is often connected to this opposite emotion.
What is pain (or loss)?
Dickinson often uses this technique to compare love to something else.
What is metaphor?
A comparison using “like” or “as” is this.
What is a simile?
Most of Dickinson’s poems were published during her lifetime: True or False?
False
Dickinson frequently explores love that is not fully ______.
What is returned (or fulfilled)
the speaker suggests that love should be expressed quietly and not fully ______.
What is spoken (or told/aloud)
Giving human traits to non-human things is this.
What is personification?
Dickinson is now considered one of the most important poets in this country’s literary history.
Love is sometimes compared to this natural force or element.
What is nature (e.g., storms, light, etc.)
The speaker may struggle to express love because of this internal conflict.
What is fear (or uncertainty)?
This literary device directly compares two unlike things without using “like” or “as.”
Dickinson’s poems were heavily edited and published after her death by these types of people.
Who are editors
the speaker suggests that love is something so deep it must be expressed in a quiet or ______ way rather than openly.
What is subtle (or hidden/indirect)
In this poem, the speaker repeatedly envies objects like the sea, birds, and light because they can do this with the person she loves.
What is be near him (or see/reach him)?
Words that imitate sounds are called this. ex(hiss,pop)
What is onomatopoeia?