Dickinson also represents death's finality by stressing the continued presence of objects no longer valuable or meaningless, and on the ceasing of activities that had characterized life. The death of common and routine activities in life are represented as idle hands of the dead in “Death sets a Thing significant” (360), when Dickinson writes, "At Rest - His fingers are." Although these activities are unimportant after death they are of value and evidence of involvement in the living world. Mentioning the "little Workmanships" and other insignificant aspects of life is Dickinson's way of representing the simplicity of life in contrast to her view of death as a revelation of the conscious, bringing it to a higher level of understanding. She
