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=**Emily Dickinson** =

"Hope" is the thing with feathersThat perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops- at all And sweetest-in the Gale- is heardAnd sore must be the stormThat could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm I've heard it in the chillest landAnd on the strangest seaYet never in ExtremityIt asked a crumb of me. SnowflakesI counted till they danced soTheir slippers leaped the townAnd then I took a pencilTo note the rebels downAnd then they grew so jollyI did resign the prigAnd ten of my once stately toesAre marshalled for a jig! **__Emily Dickinson__** ** I have been researching Emily Dickinson’s style and influences. My main source was her published book- I’m Nobody, Who are You? From what I found, the reason Emily Dickinson wrote poetry was to capture what she noticed, felt, and imagined. She used her poetry to express her feelings and overcome her fears. ** Emily does not show one specific theme in her poems, rather a whole bunch of themes. These include nature, life, death, people, and ideas. Emily did often focus her poems on the outdoors because she loved them so much. Many times she wrote poems about things she had never seen before, only imaged. One example of this is when she wrote a poem about the sea even though she had never seen or been to the sea. Most poems that Emily Dickinson wrote were in a style called iambic. This means poems had certain beat or rhythm that you could usually clap to. Her poems often consisted of 2 stanzas each containing 4 lines. Her poetry was considered light and witty, different from most poets of her time who had very “flowery” poetry. Emily was said to be an odd and quirky but kind women. She had fun with her writing and was not concerned with others’ opinions.

DucklingsBy Izzy SiedmanWaddle and ToddleThrough the long grassAway from the warmth Of their own nest Follow their motherDown to the shoreSister and brotherLook, water galore! They can only swim‘till they learn to soarOh what funBeside the pond shore Tiny webbed feetPaddle alongFlat as a sheetAs they sing their duck song.

Emily Dickinson Style Poems By Matt Lieberman __People are sharks__ Following you around, Smelling blood, Sensing weakness, fear- Always lurking

__Spotlights are prisons__ You can’t get out- Even if you want to, Everyone expects you to stay in the spotlight, You are stuck there- forever

__Time is an hourglass__ Time is an hourglass- But with someone tapping it, So much to your chagrin, time goes faster- And the hand won’t stop tapping

__Sleep is a cigarette__ Sleep is addicting, So you want more of it, But you can’t sleep your entire life- Because that would take to much time

Emily Dickinson Biography By Matt Lieberman Emily Dickinson was born on December 10th, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is not alive anymore and died on May 15th, 1886. She came from an affluent yet strict family, and when she was a child exhibited great intelligence. She then studied at Amherst College and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She had been privately writing poems and showing them to her family for years, but meeting Samuel Bowles was when she got her big break. She befriended Bowles, who was the editor-in chief at the Springfield Republican. He posted some of her poems in the publication, and she was recognized throughout New England as an excellent poet. As she grew older, her poems became more widely known and popular, but she lived much of her adult life in solitude. She still lived in Amherst, Massachusetts and wrote her poems alone. She didn't want to be the center of attention. She talks about this in many of her poems such as I am a Nobody- Who are you?! Emily Dickinson was a great poet.



Works Cited "Brief Biography of Emily Dickinson." The University of Texas at Arlington - UT Arlington - UTA. Web. 10 May 2011. . "Emily Dickinson Biography." Biography Online | Biographies of Inspirational and Famous People. Web. 10 May 2011. .