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burlesque noun \ (ˌ)bər-ˈlesk \
literature : a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration or comic imitation.

mockery usually by caricature.

theatrical entertainment of a broadly humorous often earthy character consisting of short turns, comic skits, and sometimes striptease acts

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"My Emily": A Tribute of Poetess "ED"

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  ED’s humble birthplace: born in Amherst, MA on the then widely observed “Emily Dickinson Day” December 10, 1830 (5 lbs. 3 oz.)
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  ED and older brother Austin begging on the streets of Amherst, circa 1836.
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  ED's mother: The poet remarked "she does not care for thought."
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  ED's father: Their relationship was, at best, strained.
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  ED's kid sister Lavinia. Dubbed “the wise one’ 'Vinnie’ preserved ED’s poems for posterity against her wishes, profiting handsomely.
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  ED's brother Austin, her "best beau" despite his depravities.
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  "A dog—as large as myself..." ED's beloved hound Carlo (1849-1866).
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  While ED’s brother Austin attended Yale, ED received only a rudimentary education at Amherst Academy, a notorious “"blab school".
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  ED at the height of her fame. Circa 1870. (The authenticity of this image as ED has been questioned).
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  Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin's companion. She compiled the poet’s oeuvre and cheerfully corrected its numerous syntactical errors.
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  The wicked literary critic who wantonly blocked ED’s efforts to publish her tattle-tale memoir “Emily Knows a Thing or Two” (1885).
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  Famed Hollywood film star Olivia de Havilland portrayed ED in the 1939 M-G-M biopic and box office flop “Gone with the Iambic Tetrameter”
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  ED's fulsome poetic praise for Bobolinks set off a rage for its feathers which nearly led to the bird’s extinction.
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  "It was not Death, for I stood up, / And all the Dead, lie down” The poem that inspired George A.Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968),
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  The exact nature of ED’s intimate relationship with her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson...SHALL NEVER BE KNOWN!
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  "The Ditch is Dear/to the Drunken man..." reminds us of the poet’s desperate struggle with alcoholism.
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  “Because I could not tarry for Death” was the original fair copy version. Author Samuel Clemens called it a grave "literary offence."
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  Abraham Lincoln frequently read ED’s poetry out loud to his children.
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  William Faulkner’s acclaimed biography of ED entitled A Rose For Emily (1930). Though controversial, it represents perhaps the most accurate portrait of the eccentric poet yet published.
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  Patsy Cline’s "Walkin' After Midnight” is said to be inspired by ED’s notorious nocturnal escapades in the “rough” section of Amherst.
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  ED’s obsessive preoccupation with death is widely praised by necrophiliacs.
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  “When a Girl, I had a friend, who taught me Immortality-but venturing too near, himself, he never returned.” ED impersonator James Dean.
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  Judy Garland as Emily and Mickey Rooney as Austin in the 1942 Columbia Pictures screwball comedy The The Dickinsons of Amherst.
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  You probably figured out that this is a “fixed photo” of the 30-year-old poet. Why? The Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action rifle was not manufactured in her lifetime! Nice detective work.
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  ED’s great-great-aunt Hestor was a bold feminist martyr at New England’s McCarthyite “Witch Trials”.
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  ED served briefly as Poet Laureate during the James Buchanan administration (1857-1861). She had a loathing for Buchanan, characterizing him as “ Pink—small—and punctual...”
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  A rarely published etching depicting ED reloading a cannon at the bloody Battle of Amherst (1862) during the American Civil War. Que valor!
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  Since her death in 1922 (age 92), ED has had many impersonators. Pictured here is, Marlene Dietrich, in Morocco (1930)
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  Thought to be ED’s final poem, entitled “Come on...be quick” composed just minutes before her death. Literary critics have puzzled over this apparent double entendre.
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  ED plagiarized freely from poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855), a work she privately regarded as “disgraceful.”
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  “The carriage held but just ourselves /and immortality.” A replica carriage (styled after an 1846 model landau) is currently displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s “Curious Artifacts of Poetry" exhibit.
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  I’d harass God!. Such blasphemous verse has led biographers to question ED’s Christian piety. Was she privately a “godless atheist”? Critics caution: Let the Mystery Be.
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  "Poetry is mysterious, but the poet, when all is said and done, is not much more mysterious than a banker." — Poet and essayist Allen Tate from New England Culture and Emily Dickinson (1932).
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  Though she likely preserved her maidenhood, the sophistication of ED’s poetry leaves little doubt she was familiar with the carnal mechanisms of love.
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  Caveat emptor! Beware ersatz images of ED offered for sale online. Also, eschew ocean front property offered in Wyoming.

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