![]() ![]() Death is the ultimate unknowable, and so Dickinson circles around it, painting portraits of each of its many facets, as a way to come as close to knowing it as she can. All of these varied pictures of death, however, do not truly contradict each other. ![]() In “Some – Work for Immortality –,” death is the moment where the speaker can cash their check of good behavior for their eternal rewards. In “My life had stood – a Loaded Gun –,” the existence of death allows for the existence of life. In “Behind Me dips – Eternity,” death is the normal state, life is but an interruption. In “Because I could not stop for Death –,“ she personifies death, and presents the process of dying as simply the realization that there is eternal life. In “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –,” Dickinson investigates the physical process of dying. Death is sometimes gentle, sometimes menacing, sometimes simply inevitable. No two poems have exactly the same understanding of death, however. ![]() Death is one of the foremost themes in Dickinson’s poetry. ![]()
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