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Emily Dickenson. 3 Poems about death

Because I could not stop for Death --

The Carriage held but just Ourselves --

We passed the School, where Children strove

We passed the Fields of Grazing Grain --

The Dews drew quivering and chill --

We paused before a House that seemed

Since then -- 'tis Centuries -- and yet

I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died --

Was like the Stillness in the Air --

The Eyes around -- had wrung them dry --

For that last Onset -- when the King

I willed my Keepsakes -- signed away

With Blue -- uncertain stumbling Buzz --

. . .

This poem is a mixture of both life after death and nothing after

death.

Later as the woman dies, her eyes (or windows as they are referred

to in the poem) fail, then she ". They are painful, in one

way or another, however the first line of the fourth stanza, “As all the

Heavens were a Bell” seems happy and bright. The final part with the horses refers to the horse drawn

carriage the woman was riding in when she passed away. But everything changes in the final stanza. She

doesn’t know what is going on. Death not only affects

the dying person, but all the people around then as well, "the eyes

around had wrung them dry. When she says

this, what she seems to mean is she could not see any of the afterlife

or Kings she expected to be there. Then the speaker “hears

then lift a box”. ”

The last line of the final stanza is what confused me a little bit. Centuries- and yet feels

shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses' Heads were toward

Eternity-. Although the poems were created by the

same poet, they seem to portray very different and distinct views

about death. Dickinson believed in an eternity after

death.

Approximate Word count = 1384
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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