A student's guide to Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody who are you?

December day 1830

Amherst and America, 1830

Life at the Dickinson's

Educating Emily

House work

People in Emily's life

My safest friends: People Dickinson knew

Changing Amherst

This is my letter to the world

How to read a poem

Dickinson's literary devices and conventions

Punctuation

Capitalization

Meter and rhyme

Visual aspects of Dickinson's poetry

Language/diction

Character types

Common themes in Emily Dickinson's poetry

Approaching Emily Dickinson

Interpretation

I heard a fly buzz: Poems about time and eternity

Death as a theme

Time and eternity

Tell all the truth: Poems about life and love

Certain slant of light: poems about nature

War

There is no frigate like a book

Dickinson's legacy

Chapter notes

Chronology

Bibliography

Further reading

Selected web sites

Glossary

Index.