Profa. Dra. Barbara de Fatima.A bit about the author:Born - December 10 - Amherst - Massachusetts.Died - May 16.Family:Grandfather - a leader in founding Amherst College.Father - a successful lawyer. He became a Member of Congress, and served the College as a trustee. He was ita treasurer. He was a stern and authoritarian moralist. When he spoke his timid wife trembled and was silent.Hometown: Amherst was a small town and rigid world. The church wielded the highest authority. Emily:- She had a rebellious spirit.- Her sister-in-law became her confidante.- In her poems she constructed her own world (of her garden, of the beautiful Connecticut Valley scenery, of the books, e. g. forbidden books, of her private and quite startling thoughts, of her few friends at Amherst Academy, a deeply religious person).- She visited Washington, Philadelphia, and Boston. _ In 1848 she met Ben Newton (He was a brilliant free-thinker, he introduced her to a new world of ideas, but he was too poor to marry).- In 1854 she met Reverend Charles Wadsworth in Philadelphia (he tried to teach her immortality).- She spent her middle years as White-clad recluse, but she had contact with the outer world through Helen Hunt Jackson (her girlhood friend) and Thomas Wentworth Higginson (a literary friend of the family).- Samuel Bowles Editor of the famous Springfield Republican only seven of her poems slipped into print during her lifetime.- From 1884 until her death she was semi-invalid in a condition of a mental decline.- Posthumous collections 1890 and 1896 reputation of a powerful eccentric.- Later collections 1914 established her recognition as a major poet influence upon Young writers. Her style:- Simple yet passionate.- Marked by economy and concentration.- Discovered the sharps, intense image is the poets Best instrument.- Antecipated the modern enlargement of melody by assonance, dissonance, and off-rhyme.- Discoverd the utility of ellipsis of thought and the verbal ambiguity.Her ideas:- Witty and rebellious.- Original.- On death and immortality.Her materials:- Confined her materials to the world of her small village, her domestic cycle, her garden and a few good books.- Possessed the most acute awareness of sensory experience and psychological actualities.- Expressed radical discoveries in the areas with frankness and force.- Takes liberties with Grammar, punctuation and capitalization.- was a product of Amherst Village, where colonial America lingered in puritan overtones. She inherited the tradition of the romantic nature poets; but her realism and psychological truth made her seem contemporary to a much later generation. - Glimpses of her most private thoughts and feelings (what in nature captures her attention; how she responds to beauty, to pain, to death; her special formo f worship and her haith in God).Her obsessions:- The problems of Good and Evil.- Of life and death.- The nature and destiny of the human soul. Dickinson's poetry reflects her loneliness and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. Her work was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of