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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts who wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime. Although only a few of her poems were published while she was alive, her poetry has since become a staple of American literature. Dickinson was influenced by Romanticism but is considered a writer from the Realist era. She wrote frequently about themes of death and mortality and in unconventional styles with unique punctuation and capitalization.

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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts who wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime. Although only a few of her poems were published while she was alive, her poetry has since become a staple of American literature. Dickinson was influenced by Romanticism but is considered a writer from the Realist era. She wrote frequently about themes of death and mortality and in unconventional styles with unique punctuation and capitalization.

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    Em Ily Dickinso N: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts who wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime. Although only a few of her poems were published while she was alive, her poetry has since become a staple of American literature. Dickinson was influenced by Romanticism but is considered a writer from the Realist era. She wrote frequently about themes of death and mortality and in unconventional styles with unique punctuation and capitalization.

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    Born:
    December 10, 1830
    AmherstMassachusetts
    Died:
    May 15, 1886 (aged 55)
    AmherstMassachusetts

    Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


    Emily Dickinson was an American poet best known for her eccentric
    personality and her frequent themes of death and mortality. Although she was
    a prolific writer, only a few of her poems were published during her lifetime.
    Despite being mostly unknown while she was alive, her poetry nearly 1,800
    poems altogether has become a staple of the American literary canon, and
    scholars and readers alike have long held a fascination with her unusual life.

    Literary
    Movement
    Emily Dickinson wrote at the tail end of the Romantic
    period, and even though she was influenced by some of
    the ideals of Romanticism, but is most commonly
    known as a writer from the Realist era.

    Only 7 of her poems were published while she


    was alive and none had her name attributed.
    Over time she became posthumously famous and
    is now held in great esteem by scholars and the
    public alike.

    I died for beauty but was

    ≠ scarce is one of nearly 1800


    poems Emily Dickinson wrote
    during her lifetime.
    This short but effective poem
    reflects Emily Dickinson's
    fascination for death and the
    possible life to follow. She
    wrote letters to
    correspondents asking
    specifically for witnessed
    accounts of those in the
    process of dying, somewhat
    unusual but not shocking

    Her verses are characterised by their own


    punctuation and their peculiar use of
    In this compact, short poem Emily Dickinson takes
    capital letters
    the reader into the afterlife and introduces, firstly,

    a person who died for Beauty, and secondly, a


    person who died for Truth.
    How they died isn't known, isn't necessarily
    important. The fact that they died for an ideal is. REFERENCES
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    admired the work of both William Shakespeare and Noda, A. G. (s. f.). Reseña | Morí por la belleza, de Emily Dickinson.
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    John Keats, who wrote poems on this very theme: https://www.reddepensamientos.es/2018/10/resena-mori-por-la-
    Truth and Beauty. belleza-de-emily.html?m=1

    María Fernanda Valdez Barahona

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