Emily Dickinson 2 Poem Comparison
Emily Dickinson's poems, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died," are both about one of life's few certainties, death. However, that is where the similarities end. Although Dickinson wrote both poems, their ideas about what lies after death differ. In one, there appears to be life after death, but in the other there is nothing. A number of clues in each piece help to determine which poem believes in what. The clues in "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died," point to a disbelief in an afterlife. In this poem, a woman is lying in bed with her family or friends standing all around waiting for her to die. While the family is waiting for her to pass on, she is waiting for "...the King..." This symbolizes some sort of god that will take her away. As the woman dies, her eyes, or windows as they are referred to in the poem, fail and then she "...could not see to see-." As she died she saw "the light" but then her eyes, or windows, failed and she saw nothing. This is the suggestion of there being no afterlife. The woman's soul drifted off into nothingness because
" This is when we know for sure that the woman is in fact dead. This is illustrated in the second line of the poem "Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me. In those two final lines, the horses seem to be leading her into Eternity, or into an afterlife. If this is true, then her spirit or soul must be what is looking at the "house. " This stanza is referring to the woman looking bac on her own life as she is dying. These two poems raise the question in whether or not there is anything after death, but that question is left to be answered until our final day on Earth. " "The Carriage held but just Ourselves-And Immortality. In many religions, where there is a grim reaper type spirit, this being will deliver a person's soul to another place, usually heaven or hell. In the third stanza the speaker talks of how she and Death passed the school, the "Fields of Gazing Grain-We passed the Setting Sun. Because a human body can't live for hundreds of years, the soul is who has come to the realization that so much time has passed. " Even though the poem does not come out and say it, it is likely that this grave is the woman's own. The speaker in the poem clearly states that she will not stop for Death but that it will have to come and get her.
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