The last line of the poem, “I could not see to see-” (16), could have several interpretations. One interpretation of the line is that Dickinson purposely made it so that the line could not be understood. This uninterpretable line would make the reader understand that there are no words to describe what happens after death. We may make the act of dying out to be extraordinary, but in reality, we have no idea what the experience of death will feel like. The only thing we know about death is that even though it will only happen once to us, it happens everyday to other people. If we spend our lives preparing for death with the expectations that something magnificent will occur, we blind ourselves from the reality that death is as common as a
The last line of the poem, “I could not see to see-” (16), could have several interpretations. One interpretation of the line is that Dickinson purposely made it so that the line could not be understood. This uninterpretable line would make the reader understand that there are no words to describe what happens after death. We may make the act of dying out to be extraordinary, but in reality, we have no idea what the experience of death will feel like. The only thing we know about death is that even though it will only happen once to us, it happens everyday to other people. If we spend our lives preparing for death with the expectations that something magnificent will occur, we blind ourselves from the reality that death is as common as a