Emily Dickinson does not completely fall into the time period of Realism. She only caught the starting point of it. Realism reflects the negative aspects of life. Dickinson often focused on the dark subject of death. In poem 465, she captures a moment of death. She writes about the stillness in the air and the only thing that could be heard was the buzzing of a fly. She describes what she thought it would be like when someone passes on. In Emily Dickinson’s poem 465 she writes, “With blue- uncertain stumbling Buzz-/ Between the light- and me-/ And then the Windows failed- and then/ I could not see to see- (14-16)”. Not only does she describe what it might feel like to die, she contemplates the afterlife. She wrote, “ And
