Emily Dickinson uses the theme of death in her poems constantly to try to comprehend it. It is known that Emily Dickinson used to write a lot about death and illness in her poems, but many people wonder why. Some people questioned her dealing with depression, if she had suffered the loss of someone close to her or if she was mentally stable. The reality is that she wrote about death constantly solely to try to comprehend it.
When analyzing Emily Dickinson’s poems about death, you can observe that she is trying to observe different points of view towards what is death. In some poems she would talk about her being dead and what happens in the afterlife, in another she would talk about the process of dying and watching her whole life pass by, and in another she would just talk about grieving because of death. Death was often personified as a real being rather than an action of dying in some poems, but in other poems death was used more as a …show more content…
You can clearly see this is the case because in the second stanza, the poem says “We passed the school, where children strove”, which represents childhood, to when she says “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain- We passed the setting sun”, which transcends from maturity to dying. The entire poem narrates the journey of childhood to adulthood to death to being buried to finally the afterlife. This poem shows what Dickinson would have wanted death to be like when she died as well as there being an afterlife due to her religion. In this poem she barely explores her life as a living person since only the first three stanzas talk about it. In the next three stanzas you see all the process of dying and the afterlife which only seems to support my thesis that Emily Dickinson wrote about death merely to try to understand it
When analyzing Emily Dickinson’s poems about death, you can observe that she is trying to observe different points of view towards what is death. In some poems she would talk about her being dead and what happens in the afterlife, in another she would talk about the process of dying and watching her whole life pass by, and in another she would just talk about grieving because of death. Death was often personified as a real being rather than an action of dying in some poems, but in other poems death was used more as a …show more content…
You can clearly see this is the case because in the second stanza, the poem says “We passed the school, where children strove”, which represents childhood, to when she says “We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain- We passed the setting sun”, which transcends from maturity to dying. The entire poem narrates the journey of childhood to adulthood to death to being buried to finally the afterlife. This poem shows what Dickinson would have wanted death to be like when she died as well as there being an afterlife due to her religion. In this poem she barely explores her life as a living person since only the first three stanzas talk about it. In the next three stanzas you see all the process of dying and the afterlife which only seems to support my thesis that Emily Dickinson wrote about death merely to try to understand it