Biography
Dickinson's hometown.
Amherst
Religious context, religious movement dominant at the time in Dickinson's home town.
Puritanism
Main theme in 'A Bird came down the walk-'.
Nature
Several of Nature's People
I know, and they know me
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Metre often used by Dickinson.
Common metre (8686)
The colour of the dress Emily Dickinson used to wear.
White
Major event during Emily Dickinson's life (1861-1865).
The Civil War
Name a poem in which Dickinson reflects on being different and strangeness.
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
A neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar
What mystery pervades a well!
Recurrent rhyme scheme in her poems.
ABCB
Her closest friend.
Sue (Susan Gilbert)
Widely read book that Dickinson knew by heart.
Bible
What is the main theme in 'A narrow Fellow in the Grass': fear or nature?
Fear
go your Way- and I'll go Mine-
A Murmur in the Trees- to note-
Name two orthographic features that are typical for Emily Dickinson's poetry.
Dashes
Capitalization
Emily Dickinson's home and now a museum.
The Homestead
Her greatest source of inspiration.
Nature
What should people who do not understand nature and do not show any interest in nature's wonders do, according to the speaker in 'A Murmur in the Trees- to note-'?
'go (their) way'
Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon,
Leap, plashless as they swim.
A Bird, came down the Walk-
Give one example of a poem where Dickinson uses a concrete form to represent an abstract feeling.
A narrow Fellow (the snake - fear)
Bundles of poem manuscripts that Dickinson bound together into little booklets.
Fascicles
Literary movement that may have influenced Emily Dickinson's writing (Thoreau, Emerson).
Transcendentalism
Which two images does Dickinson use in 'What mystery pervades a well!' to present nature's unfathomable mysteries and dangers?
Water in a well and the sea
This surreptitious Scion
Of Summer's circumspect.
The Mushroom is the Elf of Plants
Repeats the final consonant sound in words without the vowel sound corresponding. Also called imperfect, near, and half rhyme.
Slant rhyme