The three poems by Emily Dickinson, poem 449, 465, and 501 are closely related. All three of these poems are related to death and dying. Dickson has an imaginary and creative way of dealing with death. Being born in a time of high mortality rates, she had to have experienced many a deaths and this comes out in her poems. In poem 449, death is associated with beauty and truth. In poem 465, death is associated with a buzzing fly. In poem 501, the afterlife is associated with music, sound, philosophy, and faith.
             All three of these poems feature the same structure of alternating tetrameter and trimeter in a base meter of iambic. However only in poem 449 and 465 is there four line quatrains. Poem 501 is one large nineteen line stanza. In poems 449 and 465 sound devices are similar. Emily Dickinson's excessive use of dashes and capitol letters is shown in all three poems. Slant rhyme is used in the second and last lines in the stanza in ABCB form. However in poem 501, slant rhyme is still used, but is done so on every other line. For example, "know – go", "roll – soul". All three poems suggest a belief by Dickinson of an afterlife. In poem 449, by writing, "I died for Beauty" implies that the person has already died and looking about on their last moments. The same occurs in poem 465 when Dickinson writes "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died". In similar regard, in poem 501, Dickinson writes, "The World is not Conclusion" which implies life after the material World. The word choice used by Dickinson is interesting to note. The use of nature words throughout all three poems such as "Moss", "Beauty", "Fly", "Storm", "Species", "twig" all show Dickinson's love for nature and she finds a way to incorporate this love into her poems.
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