Emily Dickinson's The Real Enemy Is Death

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The Real Enemy is Death
Some people dwell on living much longer. Emily Dickinson is one of those low-spirited person. In spite of, she is one of the most distinguished, brilliant, and grandiose, American authors in the history of history. Emily was talented with writing and also she was well-known for her deserted companionship. It is true that Dickinson was lonely, but it is also true that her alarmingly uneventful life is reflected in letters and poems, not in known actions. Emily Dickinson’s reputation is a mystery; since she was isolated from the world, she sort of through all her depths through poems. Her poems are known for her morbid taste with death; however, one might view this as insane and miserable, but in every poem, she would
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She devoted herself in occupation such as studying, learning, and writing throughout her solitary and religious life. Emily Dickinson’s father was profoundly religious and was very strict with his family on following the steps of Christianity in which Emily Dickinson was taken to Sunday school church, but late in her teens she did not claim to be a believing Christian (801). However, Emily Dickinson kept her life privately and spent much of her solitary life alone from the outside world. At the beginning of her adulthood she started to write poems, which some are short and cleverly written. Her poems are deep and clear in a way that she wrote about her religious upbringing and things of her everyday sphere. For example, she wrote about nature, her house, the countryside, etc. Emily Dickinson was a woman that was surrounded by the company of poems about loneliness, mystery, and …show more content…
Throughout the poem, Dickinson simply states that no one have a choice about when they are going to die. “He Kindly stopped for me” /“The Carriage held but just Ourselves” (545-546 - Line 2-3). This demonstrate that Dickinson portrays Death as a real character: Death is a gentleman suitor who is riding a carriage and it is kindly waiting to take the speaker on a ride. However, one can conclude that the speaker was not afraid of Death, in a way that the speaker was comfortable riding the chariot with Death. For instance, “Were toward Eternity” (546-Line 24) shows that Death it’s on the way to take the speaker’s soul to the afterlife. It is clear that Dickinson wrote about death as a tool to show the readers the mysterious side of her imaginative

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