1. Emily Dickinson By Chase Allday

2. Birth • Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts • She was the second child born to Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson • Emily has an older brother, William Austin Dickinson, and a younger sister, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson

3. Edward Dickinson • Edward Dickinson was a Yale Graduate • He was a successful lawyer • He was also a Treasurer for Amherst College and a US Congressman

4. Samuel Fowler Dickinson • Samuel Dickinson was Emily’s grandfather • He is best known for almost single handedly founding Amherst College

5. Early Life • Emily and her family lived with her grandfather Samuel until she was ten years old • In 1840 they moved to North Pleasant St. • The same year Emily was enrolled in Amherst Academy

6. Education • By 1847 Dickinson had proved to be an outstanding student • At the age of seventeen she left to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts • She only stayed at Mount Holyoke for one year • It is speculated that she left because of homesickness

7. 1855 • Emily and her sister spent time in both Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. • Emily’s father also bought the home on Main Street that she was born

8. 1862 • Dickinson found her call for poetry and submitted her work to be published in the Atlantic Monthly. • The editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson tried to correct her work, but she wouldn’t allow him to do so. • Many people think that Emily had romantic feelings for him.

9. 1864 and 1865 • Emily went to stay with her cousins in Boston to see an eye doctor. • The doctor forbid her to read or write.

10. 1870s • In the early 1870’s Emily’s mother was confined to her dead • In 1874 her father Edward died and she was depressed and stopped going out in public

11. 1880s • Emily was diagnosed with a kidney illness, Bright’s Disease • Maurice Thompson, who was literary editor of The Independent for twelve years, noted in 1891 that her poetry had "a strange mixture of rare individuality and originality". • Emily Dickinson died on May 15, 1886 • She was buried at West Cemetery of Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts

12. “I had no time to hate” I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me.

13. Analysis • I think that the poem, “I had no time to hate”, is about regret. I think that Dickinson regrets a time in her life that she didn’t have any love or any hate in her life. • The poem has end rhyme with “me” on line 2 and “enmity” on line 4. • The poem has internal rhyme with “industry” and “be” on line 6 and end rhyme again with “be” on line 6 and “me” on line 8

14. Works Cited • "Emily Dickinson." - Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/>. • "Emily Dickinson." Emily Dickinson. Web. 14 May 2012. <http://www.shortpoems.org/emily_dickinson/emily.html>.