Through their works, American poets Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson comment on the mysteries of life and the end result of death. In a combination between the words “death” and “brain,” in the poems “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” and “The Brain – Is Wider Than The Sky,” Dickinson attempts to show the reader the numerous possibilities of life. Walt Whitman, in the poems “Song of Myself,” and “Leaves of Grass”, tries to combine the words death and grass in an attempt to explain how to cope and live with the fear of death that many people experience throughout their lifetime. Through their poetry, Dickinson and Whitman explore the theme of the Mysteries of Life and Death in the words “death,” “brain,” and “grass” and how we, as humans, should deal and cope with the issue of death throughout our lives.
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The dictionary definition of “death” says that it is “the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism.” This definition has a slightly negative connotation, but Dickinson tries to refute the commonly held fear of death. In “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” Dickinson describes how death “kindly stopped for me” (423). She personifies death with a positive connotation. By conveying positivity in death, Dickinson attempts to show readers that the death is not as bad as people imagine it to be. In developing these definitions, Dickinson conveys a common theme of the Mysteries of Life and Death. The endless possibilities that Dickinson shows the brain has combined with the positive nature of death, Dickinson shows that death is something that will happen to all people so we should not be scared of it. She also shows how the brain’s abilities can allow us to create something beneficial out of death and no matter what, if we use our brains in the right way then death will not be scary at
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The dictionary definition of “death” says that it is “the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism.” This definition has a slightly negative connotation, but Dickinson tries to refute the commonly held fear of death. In “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” Dickinson describes how death “kindly stopped for me” (423). She personifies death with a positive connotation. By conveying positivity in death, Dickinson attempts to show readers that the death is not as bad as people imagine it to be. In developing these definitions, Dickinson conveys a common theme of the Mysteries of Life and Death. The endless possibilities that Dickinson shows the brain has combined with the positive nature of death, Dickinson shows that death is something that will happen to all people so we should not be scared of it. She also shows how the brain’s abilities can allow us to create something beneficial out of death and no matter what, if we use our brains in the right way then death will not be scary at