The Opposite House Figurative Language

“There’s been a Death in the Opposite House” by Emily Dickinson observes a man witnessing an occurrence of death, and the aftermath of it. This poem is essentially about a man watching over the death of his neighbor across the street from him and watching the regular group of townspeople coming in and out of his house . It seems as if he has seen this even more than once in his life and is very intuitive about death. The readers start to see a relationship between death and the speaker and the figurative language helps to personify death and the houses it occurs in. Dickinson writes “ I know it by the numb look such houses have - always -” (Lines 2-4). The personification of death creates a sense of familiarity with the speaker and even more