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A part of life that’s unavoidable is death; and it’s also true that everybody knows that the circle of life includes a beginning and end. Emily Dickinson accepted that death goes hand and hand with life, and she writes about it in her poetry as her own way of dealing with that idea. While she uses death in her poetry she uses it in different ways. For Dickinson, her poems, "I like a look of Agony", "Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music", "Because I Could Not Stop for Death",and "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" , shows how death is another way to discover the truth of a person. Emily uses her works to express her feelings and views of death. All are dealing with life's short inevitability, death. Dickinson's extreme curiosity towards mortality …show more content…

Death of close family friends were an important part of Emily's life; a lot of close people were taken away from her. This therefore raised her interest, attraction and maybe her fear of death, which showed in a lot of her poetry, including "I like a look of Agony" and "Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music". Death, the last experience everybody has, is for Dickinson the best touchstone; it shows the truth or reality. In her poems "I like a look of Agony" and "Split the Lark - and you'll find the Music", Dickinson shows the reader how truth of a person is found and seen in death. Here she wished pain on someone else, watching them in misery in the final point of life being lead to death. It is impossible to fool or fabricate, so she finds out the truth through the misery of the person dying. Dickinson turns the misery of death into a positive thing, because since it is one of the small things that a reader can observe and trust; to …show more content…

In this poem, the death of the lark exposes the truth, that the bird is capable of sound and music. But the death of the bird comes with consequences, after you have established the truth, that it is capable of music, it’s dead and can never sing again. Here Dickinson wonders whether finding the whole truth is worth the cost of death. She starts off the poem in the first stanza by pointing out to the reader: By "split the lark" Dickinson is trying to say that by cutting the lark open, you will quickly find the bits and pieces that make the music "bulb after bulb". Her portrayal of the "scarlet experiment" and the "gush after gush" is the blood of the lark from being pulled In "Because I could not stop for Death" by Dickinson death is said as a woman's final trip to eternity. This poem aids to bring death to a more personal experience. Many of us see death as rough or harsh; Dickinson makes death seem better than it actually is because it is natural and impossible to stop for everybody. I think it also gives satisfaction that it is not the final moment of one’s journey. Its imagery and symbolism all really help the reader grasp the poem's meaning. The way in that each stanza is written makes the poem easy to read. For example, in line 5, Dickinson starts death's journey with a slow movement, which is seen as she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no

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