Gabriela M. Santiago Michael Vaughan English 1020 30 November 2016 Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson spent most of her years in her home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was a conservative person, that like to keep to herself. She tended to write poems on things she was familiarized with or matters she was interested in. Emily Dickinson used Death themes in numerous works. During this Era, a lot of poets wrote about this theme; I believe that one reason was because of the high death rate around the mid-nineteenth-century. Emily’s way of expressing herself towards Death is quite different, she uses dissimilar perspectives and how it impacts others. Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly Buzz- when I died” and “Because I could not stop for Death”, are …show more content…
She begins the poem by describing the buzzing sound of a fly surrounding her, she then follows her poem by describing the setting in that specific place, during her death. She explains how everything was very quiet, she, on the other hand, felt a “storm”, meaning she was anxious. She was surrounded by her friends and family, everyone was waiting on the moment of her passing. In the poem, she expresses that everyone that was present had dried eyes, symbolizing that everyone had cried for a while. While everyone is waiting for her death, it can be illustrated as if she was waiting on God to show up. These were her last moments, and her “King” had to be present in that room. It appears like she signed her will, deciding who was going to end with parts of her. She ends the poem with a sense of disturbance when seeing the fly again. The moment when she is starting to see the end, but after seeing that fly, she is not able to see anything else, no more light was …show more content…
The poem begins by expressing how she was not able to stop for death, but how death kindly stopped her. The author uses a soothing form of death, describing it to be in a Carriage. They move along in the Carriage, peacefully, they pass by a school where the children are playing, they passed by fields of grain, and they continue until seeing the sun setting down. The speaker continues by stating how unproperly dress she was, the temperature began to drop, and she was starting to feel cool. They passed by a place where it seemed like that was the place where she would be buried, “The roof was scarcely visible- The cornice in the ground ( Dickinson, 19).” In the final verse of the poem, the reader discovers that this encounter with Death happened centuries ago. The speaker expresses how she feels, that this was something that happened yesterday, the feeling she felt when she first saw the horses’ heads with the carriage; on their way to eternity. In other words, she believed in the life to death, and to an