The Last Night That She Lived Figurative Language

Like many of her poems, "The Last Night that She Lived" contains poet Emily Dickinson's exploration of dying and human emotion. Rather than romanticizing death, however, Dickinson utilizes death as a simple process in human life. She achieves this by creating a tone progression in the speaker, beginning with excited hope in disappointed realization, through the use of exchange active and passive figurative language and structure patterns.

Dickinson basically marks the shift of the speaker's tone with the lack of action. Then, she creates an attitude of excitement and building hopes by indicating the speaker's complicated sense of detail and the "italicized great light" which begin in the near future. Further, the speaker's emotions