Beyond The Grave
Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died- and “Because I could not stop for death-,” contains distinctive description of death that envelops emotional responds to the soul’s and body’s journey in to the everlasting and nothingness. She uses literary technique to offer shape to her death. She talks about death from her memories while at the same time she controls what the reader feels and thinks about the poem. Dickinson uses the common theme but she manages each of them in a great different way through settings, tone, symbolism, language, mood and characteristic of death.
Dickinson uses dashes at the end of every line and sometimes in the middle of the sentences in her poems to propel the reader to the next …show more content…
Many times death is represent by mourning because it is a bad thing when it happens to people but from this poem death is viewed as a romantic way of dying. The reader is left with the conclusion that death is a restful event. There is intense excitement with calm mood. Dickinson feels that the death is ordinary part of life. Although was not ready to die but she invites death as part of the cycle of her life as power that she cannot escape in which divine pure wisdom can be gotten through acknowledgement of misfortune and defeat. She personifies her death as somebody who is polite, tolerant and respectful. “Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me-” (712). The death stops her and begin a voyage together towards eternity because she had no opportunity to think about it. The poem represent a vision of an afterlife. She believes that death comes to get her towards a fresh start. The narrator passed through stages in life “We passed the school, where Children strove, we passed the Fields of Gazing Grain, We passed the setting Sun” (712). This represents her childhood at school, maturity and old age respectively. After passing the “Setting Sun” is the period when she died at her old …show more content…
The first part seems to be funny because during mourning moment when people were crying a fly comes in to interrupts. She is holding up anxiously astonishing to see exactly what happens, when she is ruined by a fly that she concentrates on until she died. This shows that death is exaggerated. The second part shows how awful to die that the flies to come for the rottenness and decay. This poems suggests that there is no afterlife because when the narrator’s eyes fail she saw nothing. “I could not see too see-” (465). Dickinson clearly thought about those moments of the last minute of drying. Dickinson’s death took place in the room. “The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-” (465). Whole poem is about a burial service where the narrator is just simply lying in her deathbed. This depicts death to be even more straightforward end. She was getting ready to die by taking care and signing her belongings to be distributed. “I willed my Keepsakes- Signed away”
Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died- and “Because I could not stop for death-,” contains distinctive description of death that envelops emotional responds to the soul’s and body’s journey in to the everlasting and nothingness. She uses literary technique to offer shape to her death. She talks about death from her memories while at the same time she controls what the reader feels and thinks about the poem. Dickinson uses the common theme but she manages each of them in a great different way through settings, tone, symbolism, language, mood and characteristic of death.
Dickinson uses dashes at the end of every line and sometimes in the middle of the sentences in her poems to propel the reader to the next …show more content…
Many times death is represent by mourning because it is a bad thing when it happens to people but from this poem death is viewed as a romantic way of dying. The reader is left with the conclusion that death is a restful event. There is intense excitement with calm mood. Dickinson feels that the death is ordinary part of life. Although was not ready to die but she invites death as part of the cycle of her life as power that she cannot escape in which divine pure wisdom can be gotten through acknowledgement of misfortune and defeat. She personifies her death as somebody who is polite, tolerant and respectful. “Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me-” (712). The death stops her and begin a voyage together towards eternity because she had no opportunity to think about it. The poem represent a vision of an afterlife. She believes that death comes to get her towards a fresh start. The narrator passed through stages in life “We passed the school, where Children strove, we passed the Fields of Gazing Grain, We passed the setting Sun” (712). This represents her childhood at school, maturity and old age respectively. After passing the “Setting Sun” is the period when she died at her old …show more content…
The first part seems to be funny because during mourning moment when people were crying a fly comes in to interrupts. She is holding up anxiously astonishing to see exactly what happens, when she is ruined by a fly that she concentrates on until she died. This shows that death is exaggerated. The second part shows how awful to die that the flies to come for the rottenness and decay. This poems suggests that there is no afterlife because when the narrator’s eyes fail she saw nothing. “I could not see too see-” (465). Dickinson clearly thought about those moments of the last minute of drying. Dickinson’s death took place in the room. “The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-” (465). Whole poem is about a burial service where the narrator is just simply lying in her deathbed. This depicts death to be even more straightforward end. She was getting ready to die by taking care and signing her belongings to be distributed. “I willed my Keepsakes- Signed away”