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Many of Emily Dickinson’s 1800 works were centered around topics of death, nature, and solitude. Her works and topics were based off her life experiences and feelings. In Dickinson’s early life she had many losses with people in her life. Even after her early life there were still death in the middle of her life as many near the end. Many of these losses especially the ones starting in the early life were the reason Dickinson would make many poems relating to death. When Dickinson was in her twenties, she would send many letters to friends and not receiving much made her feel upset and continuously lose friends. In her early thirties she had an obscure personal crisis to an unknown which is shown through some of her poems. These experiences seem to show why she wrote a good number of poems about solitude and being alone. …show more content…

Near the end of Dickinson’s life, she would write many poems and in 1874 her father suddenly died. Dickinson’s mother became sick and died in 1882. Many deaths of her friends, Bowles, Wadsworth, Lord, Jackson, and her eight-year-old nephew Gilbert. After many of these she would stop seeing people and around the last 15-20 years of her life could be when she wrote many of her poems about death. Dickinson’s poem “Refuge” talks about “How good to be safe in tombs,/ Where nature's temper cannot reach,/ Nor vengeance ever comes!” (Dickinson), which shows how she could be thinking being dead is better and a nice thing as you do not have to deal with life and all the issues she is facing. Dickinson’s poem "Death Leaves Us Homesick”, it is talking about how death can make the ones left feel sad or lost as you can’t bring people back, “Death leaves Us homesick, who behind, / Except that it is gone … / Who something lost, the seeking for / Is all that's left them, now—”

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She shows that she feels that is useless because she says “tell it to the bog –the livelong June- to an admiring Bog!” (Dickinson 7-8). The poem “I can wade grief”, further shows how her writings were affected by the death of her family members and romances, Dickinson says “I Can wade grief, whole pools of it, I am used to that” (Dickinson 1-3; Emily Dickinson's Biography). Another sign of Dickinson’s depressing thoughts of solitude and losses are shown when she writes the poem “Are friends a

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In Dickinson poem, I noticed word like "Immortality", "Death", "Civility", "Eternity" and etc. In this poem, the death was treated as a person and which was getting closer to their life journey which can be end sooner. III. Discerning Patterns

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Dickinson's poems often engage, directly or subtly, with her own solitude and anonymity as an artist. Describe the variety of ways and moods in which this situation is addressed. Her solitude was shown in many of her poems, as she wrote them using a first person point of view, almost like she was talking to herself. They give me the impression of someone jotting down their random thoughts in a journal. Her poem listed as number “39” reflexes this in the first line, “I never lost as much but twice /

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Emily was troubled from a tender age by deepening danger of death particularly the deaths of those close to her. She enjoyed the religious renewal that took place in Amherst resulting to numerous confessions of faith amongst Dickinson’s peers ("Chronology

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When Dickinson was young she thought of death as a kind, peaceful gentleman. She elaborates on this idea in her poem “Because I could not Stop for Death”, “Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me/ We slowly drove - He knew no haste,” Emily Dickinson uses the personification of Death in a way that bears resemblance to a classy, peaceful gentleman who is willing to slowly guide and patiently wait for a lady. Her wording also gives the connotation that she is young and in love with this gentle Death. This idea abruptly turns into hatred when she loses her parents.

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There is no doubt that Emily Dickinson was fixated on the idea of death while writing the majority of her poetry. If the poems are not centered on death, there is at least a mention of the subject. She wrote about it abstractly, directly, draped in metaphor and right out in the open. But why? Why did Emily Dickinson obsessively write about death?

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It was a tragic death for her. This may be why she spent so much time in her room. When Dickinson wasn’t at church, you could usually find her in her room. This was during her adult life, where she still lived in her father’s home. She wanted to live somewhere with no distractions.

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Emily Dickinson’s poems were also influenced by Metaphysical poets in the 17th century. Most of her poems were written in the six years between 1858 and 1864. Emily’s poems were mostly about love and separation, death, nature, and God--but especially love. Her most famous poems include “A great Hope fell,” “A Clock stopped,” and “Alone I Cannot be.” After 1858, she convinced herself that she had a genuine talent, for now her poems were carefully put in a box for the possibility of inspection by future readers or publishers.

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In a world full of life, the concept of loss is one of the most difficult human concepts to grasp. As humans, we understand that we walk this earth until death do us part, but to us, the physical concept of death is so impossibly incomprehensible. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, a Loss of Something Ever Felt I, our childhood confusion of loss is explained and, furthermore, how adulthood does not assist in our understanding. Dickinson uses a number of poetic devices including metaphors, personification and a number of similes. She explores our ignorance to our emotions when experiencing grief due to our lack of understanding.

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Walt Whitman is comparing Death and Race, everyone is equal. Death happened all over the place. In the beginning Emily Dickinson’s thought and her work was not being understood. She wrote down I DIED for beauty this poem, in this poem she had a different understanding of death. In this poem Emily Dickinson showed the person who can be resting in peace, to be immoral after death, is the person who only lives for beauty and truth.

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Emily Dickinson’s exploration of death and consciousness in “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” reveals her skepticism about eternal life and God. Much of Emily Dickinson’s work focuses on the finality of consciousness in death and her relationship with God. Her poems ponder what it means to move from physical awareness to one that is purely metaphysical. “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” highlight her unique view on the transfer of consciousness between life and death by reflecting on the mind during or after passing. Dickinson’s understanding of death was limited to her own experience which left her, like many others, questioning.

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Death is an unavoidable aspect of existence as humans. With life comes death no matter what. It is something that is never easy: having those one loves torn from them for seemingly no reason. Or having one’s own life dreams and ambitions put to a screeching halt, sometimes without warning. In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death—”, she uses the personification of death itself and all the things around the character to show that death is not something to be feared but welcomed as the next step in existence.

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Emily Dickinson is one of the best known American poets, famous for her perception of death through poems, including a poem entitled Because I could not stop for Death. Because I could not stop for Death was written as a reflection of life or better yet the historic journey of life. The speaker of Because I could not stop for Death is presented as a female who was accompanied by Death on her journey to her grave. Dickinson’s description of Death was a gentleman because the speaker was too busy so Death “kindly stopped for me” (2).

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A purpose behind Dickinson's obsession with death may be her involvement with religious believes. Her ideas about God, Eternity, Time, Immortality, Infinity and so on are responsible for her developing enthusiasm for death. Inmorality to her was an issue to be confronted as death, however it was not an expansion or a retreat. Her quick enthusiasm for the death poems is to dramatize the occasion of death, to draw out the tension or conflict that such a specific occasion will have on the brains of a person. Dickinson's obsessions on death might likewise be followed to her Puritan environment.

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Emily Dickinson lived during a time when many would become very well acquainted with death. As such it would become a specter that was feared as it could make an appearance at any time. So looking at Dickinson 's work it seems rather interesting that taken as a collection there seems to be the tale of one character that comes to view death in a multitude of different ways throughout their life. First is the feared figure that leaves them restless, then death comes as something numbing but leaves the living to celebrate the life of the one that has passed, life as a story that is completed and finished upon death, and finally coming to see death as kind figure that takes one to a new home. this finally view is what paints death as something that is not to be feared but rather as something natural, it is the next

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