Woman's Death

Some of the poems Emily Dickinson wrote, usually offered many different views of death that involve physical and emotional responses of the soul and body’s journey through nothingness, madness and even eternity. The greatness in her poems comes from the use of literary devices to give meaning to death and the different interpretations of the journey through death. Although Dickinson presents contradicting thoughts sometimes, it is clear that she believes that there are many types of deaths in a human being’s life. This paper compares and contrasts the theme of death in Dickinson’s three poems titled “I heard a fly buzz”, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “After great pain a Formal Feeling Comes”.

In The Story of An Hour Chopin makes a girl who wants her husband dead. When she hears the news of her husband's death she was relief. For her being tied down to someone wasn’t the lifestyle she wanted. She was happy that her husband was “dead” but also a little sad. She doesn’t want to be tied down to anyone but then it happens. Chopin uses literature of discontent in her story The Story of An Hour by wanting the women to change her lifestyle.

In the poem “The Truth the Dead Know,” Anne Sexton narrates her struggle to overcome the desolation and sorrow caused by the death of her parents. Throughout the poem there is an attempt to discover the truth, meaning, and nature of death. Sexton demonstrates that death can be understood through its relationship with life. Death is shown to erode physicality, divide people, and escape definition as even nature and religion fail to provide comfort and an understanding of death.

The sympathetic actions of Death are what make the readers relate and feel as if Death is human more than anything else in the novel. Throughout the book Death feels sorrow for the loved ones of and the people themselves that are taken by him. They see so many people die in such terrible ways and how it effects the people that were around that person. “She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.”, is one of the times Death feels sorrow because of the cause and effect of his work. “Even death has a heart.”

He has grown used to this syndrome of death and has almost no human left in him. He says “that consumed my faith forever” to help the reader understand just how much the sight affected him and how he felt towards it all. In contrast to this the author is the short story “A Walk on the Long Stone Serpent” has a much more bewildered and reverent approach to understanding this event. In the story the author states “I stopped and looked out over the side, feeling terribly insignificant and small in this place,

In her poem #465, Emily Dickinson’s speaker allow the reader to experience an ironic reversal of conventional expectations of the moment of death in the mid-1800s, as the speaker finds nothing but and eerie darkness at the end of her life.

In Emily Dickinson’s poem "The Last Night that She Lived..." displays the unspoken emotions of the narrator who is suffering silently at the sight of his female friend dying. Although her beloved friends watch her as she slowly disappears the from the realm's of this earth, the narrator fails to mention the imagery of her or anyone's physical aspects within the situation. "It was a Common Night Except the Dying- this to Us Made Nature different," (lines 1-3) revealing that the narrator knew death was part of life and that it was natural. It caught the group of friends off guard because it was not a common causality in their life. It was a regular common day, but the difference was a tragedy invested into the day. From this experience, the deceased

“In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once she was a lady. She said she thought it was going to be a good day for driving, neither too hot or too cold, and she cautioned Bailey that the speed limit was fifty-five miles an hour and that the patrolmen hid themselves behind billboards and small clumps of trees and sped out after you before you had a chance to slow down.”

The poem moves onto “The Eyes around-“as Emily paints a picture for her readers to feel the sad eyes of all the people piercing their eyes at her cold body. For the second time Emily references movement and life around death. We can feel the “Breathe gathering firm” from the surrounding people seeing their loved ones dead, lying there. Emily explains the surroundings of a dead person here, how life around stops as the people breathes are held firm. For one moment, everything stops and all life is focused on death.

Ms. Dickinson seemed very at ease with death as if it were but another point of our existence. In her later works she concentrated more on death because her own personal life was marked by a succession of deaths, loosing those that she was close to and these events in her life caused her to write about death as if it

The speaker also suggests noticing the little things when you watch someone take their last breaths. In the second stanza the speaker says,” We noticed the small things […] by this great light upon our minds.” The speaker is saying that one’s sense of notice increases when mourning with someone before they are about to pass away. You reflect on the past and present and try to remember those little things as for those are what truly make us

In Emily Dickinson’s poem, she introduces a speaker and a dying women, that have a connection between each other. Dickinson describes the speakers attitude about the women with the help of the pronouns, literary devices, and articles that she uses in the poem. In the poem the speaker mentions numerous times that they are content about the woman’s death. As the poem continues to develop, the readers sense that the speaker is not only content with her death, but she is also heartbroken. Due to the speakers complex attitude, it causes Dickinson’s poem to be more perplex.

In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died” the woman seems to anticipate everlasting life, but does not find it. When the woman in the poem dies and her eyes or

Throughout the poem, she shows how death can be cordial yet unrelenting. Although death may seem frightening, this poem shows that it can be a calm and steady march onward to our next life. By dividing the poem into six stanzas, the speaker gives

In this poem Dickinson makes the reader aware that death is an everyday event but can change the lives of the ones that are the closest to that person. When death becomes a reality the family seems to realize that the smaller things are very important, “We noticed the smaller things- Things overlooked before/ By this great light upon our Minds Italicized-as ‘twere” (lines 5,6,7,8). The things that everyday people do not slow down to see, become significant when the realization comes that there is someone that will not get to enjoy those same small things.