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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty"
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty"
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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty"

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    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535825337
    A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty"

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      A Study Guide for Emily Dickinson's "I Died for Beauty" - Gale

      08

      I Died for Beauty

      Emily Dickinson

      1890

      Introduction

      Emily Dickinson's poem I Died for Beauty is an allegorical work that depicts someone who died for beauty interacting briefly with someone who died for truth. An is a metaphorical work in which the characters and actions represent larger ideas or themes. Often in an allegory, abstract ideas are given physical form, as they are in Dickinson's poem. The poem equates the two as equally noble martyrs whose names are eventually covered with moss, as if to indicate that in the end, what one dies for is unimportant. Although is it uncertain when this poem was written, it is typical of Dickinson's work in its style, length, and content. It is a seemingly simple and straightforward poem that reveals deeper meaning with analysis. The length is only three quatrains (four-line stanzas), and the themes of death, beauty, and truth are frequent in her work.

      Unlike most poets, Dickinson did not write with the intent of making a career as a poet. She kept most of her work private, which is why her poems often have a circa date indicating approximately when they were written. After her death, however, her sister enlisted a trusted editor to help get the poetry in publishable form. Because of these circumstances, the dates when Dickinson's work was published vastly differ from the dates when they were written. I Died for Beauty was written around 1862 and was first published in 1890. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson published the poem in a September issue of the Christian Union. Since then it has been

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