Biography
Dickinson's hometown.
Amherst
Religious context.
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
Main theme in 'It was not Death, for I stood up,'.
Despair
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
Name one poem in which Dickinson portrays the destructive Power of Nature.
There came a wind like a bugle-
An awful Tempest mashed the air,
What rosy face
Has lost a blush today?
Whose cheek is this?
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
Name one poem in which Dickinson deals with loss.
The wind- tapped like a tired man-
I cautious, scanned my little life-
After great pain, a formal feeling comes-
I have a Bird in spring
those old- phlegmatic mountains
I have never seen "Volcanoes"-
Give one example of a poem where Dickinson uses a concrete form to represent an abstract feeling.
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
There's a certain Slant of light,
A still- Volcano- Life- / I have never seen "Volcanoes"-
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 poem presents the dangers of one's own mind?
One need not be a Chamber-to be Haunted-
go your Way- and I'll go Mine-
A Murmur in the Trees- to note-
Poem that consists of one 17-line stanza packed with apocalyptic imagery.
There came a wind like a bugle;