Emiy Dickinson

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Death in Dickenson 's Poetry

The idea and theme of death overshadow other themes due to its repetitiveness . The poem masterfully handles the effect of death 's unexpected visit upon the victim , viewing her possession from flustered self-pleasure and comfortable anticipation to gradual fear and doubt into a full realization of death 's deception and terrifying purpose . In last years , Emily was obsessed with the idea of death and as her close associates who departed to that bareheaded

life under the grass she expressed her sympathies with deceased in verses that are morbidly questioning the true nature of death . Her poetry reflects many times her poetic insight into the nature of death . Her understanding of death is illustrated in more that 500 lyrics . As she suffered from dreadful isolation , so death was darling to her and was the only solace to the pathos and miseries of her life . In some of her death poems , Emily Dickenson attempts an imaginative construction of her own death

One of her best written poem on this theme is `Because I could not stop for Death . She tries , in effect , to catch herself at the very center of the act of dying . She uses concrete and specific images for this purpose . She does not take into consideration a general and common conception of death . Her ability to find specific and concrete image actions and personifications that would transfix death at the very point of striking...