A five page paper looking at Emily Dickinson s view of death as expressed in such poems as Because I Could Not Stop For Death, I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died, and Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers. The paper concludes that Dickinson feels that while one should not fear death, one should also make the most of life, for it doesn t get better than this. Bibliography lists four sources. A five page paper looking at a number of different poems by this seminal nineteenth-century American poet, in the light of her views about death and its role in the circle of life. Below, Some keep the Sabbath going to Church , and Twas just this time, last year, I died.
Bibliography lists five sources.
The writer concludes that one poem attempts to describe pain in terms of metaphors, while the other attempts to replicate the 'blankness' of true pain. No additional sources cited. A 6 page paper analyzing whether the famous nineteenth-century poet can actually be considered a transcendentalist. Looking at evidence presented in several of her poems, the writer argues that Dickinson would like to have been such, but many of her fears and obsessions rose from her Calvinist background. Further in summer than the birds', and 'Tell all the truth but tell it slant' to support its thesis.