Mahmudul Hassan Tareq
Pankaj Bhattacharjee
Lecturer
Writing Literary Essay and Composition
Eng-437
091-114-022
11 Dec., 2011
Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
Poetry; most of the time depends on the poet’s personal life. His/her experiences in life are reflected through the words of poetry. Emily Dickinson lived most of her life within private world. Because of this life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than others authors of her time were. She treated death in a different way with the use of imagery and metaphor; these were taken from her observations and imagination. She used simple language and paid attention to things that nobody else noticed in the universe. She was obsessed with death and its consequences especially the idea of eternity. Life’s most fascinating features to Dickinson were contingency of death, awe, wonder and endless questions. If anyone examine Dickinson’s poems one can see that Dickinson’s point to death as the final inevitable change. One thing is evident in her poetry that she was curious to learn about the intensity of dying person and their experience at the point of mortality. The most important feature is that throughout her poetry Emily Dickinson searched for the knowledge of what lies beyond life and in the mysteries of death and immortality.
Nearly 150 of Emily Dickinson’s poems begin with “I,” the speaker is probably fictional, and the poem should not automatically be read as autobiography. She insisted on the distinction between her poetry and her life. But it is the reflection of her state of life, how she treated life with death. Life is a journey to death and death is the road to afterlife. It can be said that the journey towards eternity. In the poem “Because I Could not stop for Death”, Emily Dickinson wrote:
Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me:
The carriage held but just ourselves
And... [continues]
Pankaj Bhattacharjee
Lecturer
Writing Literary Essay and Composition
Eng-437
091-114-022
11 Dec., 2011
Death in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
Poetry; most of the time depends on the poet’s personal life. His/her experiences in life are reflected through the words of poetry. Emily Dickinson lived most of her life within private world. Because of this life of solitude, she was able to focus on her world more sharply than others authors of her time were. She treated death in a different way with the use of imagery and metaphor; these were taken from her observations and imagination. She used simple language and paid attention to things that nobody else noticed in the universe. She was obsessed with death and its consequences especially the idea of eternity. Life’s most fascinating features to Dickinson were contingency of death, awe, wonder and endless questions. If anyone examine Dickinson’s poems one can see that Dickinson’s point to death as the final inevitable change. One thing is evident in her poetry that she was curious to learn about the intensity of dying person and their experience at the point of mortality. The most important feature is that throughout her poetry Emily Dickinson searched for the knowledge of what lies beyond life and in the mysteries of death and immortality.
Nearly 150 of Emily Dickinson’s poems begin with “I,” the speaker is probably fictional, and the poem should not automatically be read as autobiography. She insisted on the distinction between her poetry and her life. But it is the reflection of her state of life, how she treated life with death. Life is a journey to death and death is the road to afterlife. It can be said that the journey towards eternity. In the poem “Because I Could not stop for Death”, Emily Dickinson wrote:
Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me:
The carriage held but just ourselves
And... [continues]
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