Line #12 Creator/EmilyDickinson


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: Featured not in her usual white.]]
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4	->''There is no Frigate like a Book\
5	[[{{Escapism}} To take us Lands away]]\
6	Nor any Coursers like a Page\
7	Of prancing Poetry –\
8	This Traverse may the poorest take\
9	Without oppress of Toll –\
10	How frugal is the Chariot\
11	That bears the Human Soul –''
12	--> -- '''Poem No. 1263''' (Thomas Johnson-assigned) or '''1286''' (R.W. Franklin-assigned)
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14	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American {{poet\|ry}}. The daughter of a prominent family in Amherst, Massachusetts, she was known in the community for being an eccentric; she rarely left her home and most of her contact with the outside world was through letter correspondence with friends.
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16	Unbeknown to most, she was a prolific poet; indeed, she composed some 1800, though only a dozen were ever published in her lifetime. Much of her work covered themes of faith, death, flowers, and employed unusual grammar and syntax for the day. Because of this, they were heavily edited by anthologies, and after her death, by her family. It was not until nearly half a century later that her works would be published unedited. Today, she is considered one of the most innovative and influential of American poets.
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18	A large amount of her work can be found [[http://www.bartleby.com/113/ here]].
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20	!!Depictions in media
21	* ''Film/AQuietPassion'' (2016): Portrayed by Creator/CynthiaNixon (Adult Emily) and Creator/EmmaBell (Young Emily).
22	* ''Film/WildNightsWithEmily'' (2018): Portrayed by Creator/MollyShannon (Adult Emily) and Creator/DanaMelanie (Young Emily).
23	* ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'' (2019–2021): Portrayed by Creator/HaileeSteinfeld.
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25	!!The Woman In White
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27	* AmbiguouslyGay: It's theorized that Emily may have had romantic feelings for her friend, Sue Gilbert, who would later marry Emily's brother. She would write letters to Sue detailing how she had thoughts and feelings for her that make her feel feverish and her heart to start racing. She also sided with Sue against her brother Austin Dickinson in a family feud that started when Austin had an affair with a younger woman and [[ForeverWar is still going on in Amherst]].
28	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Not only in lifestyle, but also in her style of writing.
29	* CommonMeter: Many of her works were intentionally written in the meter of hymns like "Amazing Grace", such as "Because I could not stop for Death". This makes them handy to sing to tunes like "The Yellow Rose of Texas" or the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' theme.
30	* CurtainsMatchTheWindows: Had red hair and eyes, though she described her hair as 'chestnut' because red hair was considered unattractive and morally suspect at the time.
31	* DeadArtistsAreBetter: No more than 12 of Emily Dickinson's works were published during her lifetime; these were heavily edited for punctuation and style by the editors. Only after her death were the vast majority of her unedited, unpublished poems recovered.
32	* DontFearTheReaper: "Because I could not stop for Death" is probably the TropeCodifier of the kindly/friendly depiction of Death.
33	* ExecutiveMeddling: Editors, and later her descendants, would change her work to be more in line with the style of contemporary works.
34	* LonersAreFreaks: She spent most of her life secluded from the world, and she was known for being... odd. Downplayed, however, in that she did still see her family and communicated with her close friends via letters, and by most accounts Emily was quite nice and a FriendToAllChildren.[[note]]She was apparently quite fond of watching children at play and would lower down treats from her window using a rope and basket.[[/note]]
35	* NightmareFetishist: One of her longer poems can be interpreted as describing her being courted by Death incarnate.
36	* NoTitle: Most of her poems are identified by their first line, or by number.
37	* QueerFlowers: One of her most famous poems about Susan Gilbert refers to violets lying in her eye.
38	-->Still in her Eye
39	-->The Violets lie
40	* PunctuationShaker: One of the defining styles of her work. Common are dashes - and "odd apostrophes", with Important Words Capitalized. This can cause some problems. Typesetters have difficulty honoring the varying lengths and angles of her handwritten dashes.
41	* ReclusiveArtist: Particularly near the end of her life, Emily would never leave the house, and communicated with her close friends only through letters. She still managed to live a rather social life despite this.
42	* ShrinkingViolet: One of the iconic examples! Even before she became a recluse, she was noted to seem uneasy in social situations.
43	* UsedToBeMoreSocial: She became a notorious shut-in.
44	* TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Her poems describe the world and nature as an amazing intense beauty, which overwhelms her too much to handle it all for too long.

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