CHARACTERIZATION OF DEATH IN DICKINSON’S POETRY
Emily Dickinson had a sad life full with tragic experiences and its influences on her poetry can be seen in most of her works. During her life, she struggled with traumatic effects of a succession of deaths and due to this situation she spend the later half of her years in grief. The tragic deaths of people close to Dickinson have affected her writing and style of expression, in which death became a persisting theme of her poetry. Even though most of her poems consist directly on the subject “death”, she also used unusual ways to write about this theme, by writing about immortality as a state of consciousness in an everlasting present. A typical example can be seen in her poems “Because I could not stop for Death”, “I heard a Fly buzz when I died” and “I died for Beauty but was scarce”.
Emily Dickinson wrote most of her poems for the period of sensitive apprehension during the civil war. Her poem, “Because I could not stop for......
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