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Faculty of Humanities and Social Science => English => Topic started by: A.S. Rafi on August 01, 2013, 02:21:46 PM
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) is one of the most celebrated poets of America. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she passed a mostly introverted and reclusive life.This thread is dedicated to explore this poet's life with a view to sharing some exotic information:
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Emily Dickinson
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1. Not considering the poems that might have been destroyed or lost Dickinson has written overall 1,775 poems. But only seven poems were published during her lifetime, and most were anonymous and against her will. She was confident of posthumous success.
Emily accomplished her mission in a real big way :)
(Info. www.funtrivia.com, www.tressugar.com)
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2. After her death, her sister found over 1,000 poems in Emily's bureau. She had them edited and published in three series, but all of her 1,800 poems were not published until 1955.
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very informative post
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Thank you.
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Please mention some famous quotations by Elizabeth Dickinson.
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I will.. in course of time. Thank you for your interest.
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Okay, Rafi. What are those other fun facts, dear?
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I think, things were not that funny in her life. She faced some events in her earlier life which made her psychologically unsettled.
Many of her enigmatic poem and reclusive life, make her biography an interesting study.
I hope you will pick some of them .
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Dear
I published my 3rd article on Dickinson(jointly). Don't misunderstand me. May be irony doesn't work sometimes.Ha ha ha.....
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Dear Madams,
Thank you so much for your feedback. Particularly for the word 'fun' i didn't mean it as 'funny' nor it as an 'irony'. Rather it was meant to be an interesting fact that you might consider as a stimulating or thought provoking piece of information; no matter be it happy or sad :) I was kinda in a break from the forum, but I will surely update this thread with many more FUN-facts.. haha...I usually love reading biographies and Irina Madam, I would also love to read your research-work sometimes :)
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Dear Rafi,
I'd label this - "The famous author of Robinson Crusoe changed his name in 1703 from Foe to Defoe. He believed that Defoe is “more socially and upward sounding” than Foe is." as a fun fact!
Keep the interesting facts coming about Emily.
Tahsina
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Okay, dear. I understand.
Thank you.
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Fact 3: Although Emily was never married, but she was highly influenced by two men; Leonard Humphrey, Principal of Amherst Academy, and Benjamin F. Newton, a law student in her father's office. Not only did these men make an emotional impact on Emily but they also influenced her writing.
A particular poem was apparently written for both men.
The poem reads:
I never lost as much but twice,
and that was in the sod;
twice I have stood a beggar
Before the door of God.
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Fact 4: Emily Dickinson not only loved writing and reading, she loved nature. She was an avid gardener and used many horticultural references in her poetry. She wrote passionately about various flowers and created her own immaculate herbarium with more than 400 samples. A herbarium, a popular pastime in the 1800s, was a book filled with pressed and labeled samples of plants and flowers.
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Fact 5: There is only one authenticated photo of Emily Dickinson in existence. It shows a pretty 17 year old girl with big eyes, dark hair and a humble style. Dickinson seemed to maintain this simple style for her entire life. The only other clue we have to her appearance after the age of 17 is that she was known for always wearing white dresses.
Due to her penchant for white dresses, Emily Dickinson is often referred to as the "Moth of Amherst".
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Rafi, look how smart Emily was!!!! A single poem for two men!! :) We get the idea of postmodernism from her dealings.
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:D let me make the case a little complicated. Do you remember Shakespeare's Sonnet 144? Here's a glimpse for you:
Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,
Which, like two spirits, do suggest me still;
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman colored ill.
:D
But how did you find it postmodern anyway?