As someone with a rather intimate and longstanding connection to death, it is no surprise that Emily Dickinson often used poetry as a medium to explore her ever-developing relationship with mortality. Her literary investigation of as much is incredibly diverse in content, her poems often highlighting her attempts to cope with the death of loved ones, or perhaps portraying her endeavors to deepen her understanding of herself and the world around her. Wrought with complexity, Dickinson's poetry on death generally avoids one reductive perspective: constructing death as a terrifying, unknown entity. By avoiding this one-dimensional point of view, Dickinson allows herself room to characterize death with an air of familiarity, portraying the typically
