Emily Dickinson was a famous American poet who lived from 1830 to 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was influenced in her writing by nature and her strong imagination. Her poems were typically written in iambic meter with multiple stanzas following a pattern. Dickinson was a reclusive poet who did not seek fame for her writing and kept many poems hidden in her desk. She came from a religious family, with her father a lawyer and her mother known for cooking, and had one brother and one sister.

1. Emily Dickinson
Biography
Biography
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2. Where did Emily Dickinson
live and grow up?
Emily grew up in Amherst Massachusetts, in
the United States.

3. What influenced Emily
Dickinson’s writing?
Emily’s imagination was strong which let her to
write poetry.
Emily loved nature, and the outdoor activities ,
which influenced her writing.

4. What poetic tools or styles is
the poet known for?
Most of her poems have two stanzas or more. Each stanza follows a
pattern set in the first stanza.
Emily’s poems are wrote in a rhythm or meter called iambic.
She usually wrote in “flowery” languages.
She writes extra ordinary poems that lived in possibility, because she
wrote with her imagination. Her poems are light and witty.

5. When did Emily
Dickinson live?
She lived in 1830 to 1886.
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6. Why did Emily Dickinson
write?
Emily wrote because she was homesick. She
wrote because of the death of Benjamin
Newton, a law student studying with her
father.
She had an ordinary life spending her day only
in her house until she started writing.

7. Who was Emily Dickinson and what
was her family like?
Emily was an odd ball, and didn’t want fame or money through
her poems. She stuffed her poems in her desk
Emily’s father was a lawyer named Edward. He was the
treasurer of a collage. Emily’s father was a strictly religious
man.
Emily’s mother was known for her fine cooking.
Emily’s brother three years older than Emily. He was known
for being bright.
Emily’s sister, Lavinia, was known to be out spoken and witty.
She was also much prettier than Emily.

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