About the Author :
The complete name of the author is Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Born on 10th December, 1830 and died on15th May, 1886) in Amherst, Massachusetts.
She was an American poet. Generally she was considered as a private poet.
Many of her poems deal with the themes if death and immortality of soul.
Her poems contain short lines often without titles.
She used Slant rhyme
Slant rhyme is also called half-rhyme is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved (e.g. ill with shell).
The complete name of the author is Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Born on 10th December, 1830 and died on15th May, 1886) in Amherst, Massachusetts.
She was an American poet. Generally she was considered as a private poet.
Many of her poems deal with the themes if death and immortality of soul.
Her poems contain short lines often without titles.
She used Slant rhyme
Slant rhyme is also called half-rhyme is consonance on the final consonants of the words involved (e.g. ill with shell).
We can divide her poetic works into three periods.
Pre-1861. : The poems written in this period are sentimental in nature. Published by Thomas H. Johnson, with the title The Poems of Emily Dickinson,
1861–1865. : It is the developed period creativity can be witnessed inher poems.
Post-1866. : Only limited number of poems are written during this period.
Her famous poems are:
"A narrow Fellow in the Grass"
"The Snake";
"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers ‘
"The Sleeping"
"Blazing in the Gold and quenching in Purple"
"Sunset’
She used traditional balladic stanzas with ABCB rhyme and some of the poems contain common meter with alternative lines of iambic pentameter and iambic trimeter.
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