Emily Dickinson

By: Michael Gayton

Basic info

• She was born in Amherst, MassachusettsOn December 10 1830.• She was a recluse and hardly left her house.• Her friends barely ever saw her they only

wrote to each other.

Her poetry

• She wrote nearly 1800 poems.• Her work was published after her death.• Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in

which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.

God permits industrious angels

• GOD permits industrious angels• Afternoons to play.• I met one,—forgot my school-mates,• All, for him, straightway.• • God calls home the angels promptly•         5• At the setting sun;• I missed mine. How dreary marbles,• After playing Crown!

I went to HeavenI WENT to heaven,—’T was a small town,

Lit with a ruby,Lathed with down.

Stiller than the fields         5At the full dew,

Beautiful as picturesNo man drew.

People like the moth,Of mechlin, frames,         10Duties of gossamer,And eider names.Almost contented

I could be’Mong such unique         15

Society.

• http://www.bartleby.com/113/index4.html• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson