To start off, I will be analyzing each of the poems written by Emily Dickinson. All of these poems mention heaven as an afterlife and are directed towards death. In poem 479, the words expressed melancholy and curiosity with the thought of death. This poem gave off more of a suicidal theme: "Because I could not stop for Death- He kindly stopped for me-" (101). To me, this meant that she may have wanted to take her life, but could not, so death will come someday come. The reason I use the word 'someday' is because the poem is leading toward "eternity" as she and Him were driving on a path to heaven. The next poem, 591, captures the silence of death, especially enough to hear the buzzing of a fly. I believe that the buzzing is the transition into heaven: "With Blue – uncertain – stumbling Buzz – Between the light – and me" (103). She feels that she is losing her senses as she moves onto a new life. I like how that the room was dark in the beginning, and then the buzzing is a bridge toward the light of an afterlife. Poem 764 is about the immense power God has over her. It mentions ownership, the ability to kill but not the power to die, and guarding her "Master". The last poem, 1668, was very short and metaphoric. She writes that a flower in the winter is its death: "To any happy flower, the frost beheads it at its play" (109).
