She went through more heartbreaks, and began to witness more deaths, including her mother’s. This lead Dickinson to isolate herself, and write more about death. For instance, in her poem, “Because I could not stop for death”, she said, “The carriage held but just ourselves/and immortality,”(1.3-4). If Emily Dickinson’s avoidance of writing things straightforward and liking to telling the truth causes confusion, this quote means that in dying, they would live forever in death itself. Dickinson began to bring to light her new understanding of loss and death through her poetry. She incorporated her new found understanding and interest in death, realizing she had so much more to learn and experience. “I heard a fly buzz,” from her poem, “I heard a fly buzz- when I died,” portrays her hearing a fly buzzing instead of seeing some spiritual being, such as Christ, or spiritual revelations when dying(1.1). This shows that Dickinson started to think about death more and more throughout time. Then eventually, at the age of 56, while suffering from a case of Bright’s disease, Dickinson died on May 15th, 1886. Forever leaving an imprint of her feelings on people’s hearts. Never quite getting out her true understanding of death, for when she truly found it, it was too
She went through more heartbreaks, and began to witness more deaths, including her mother’s. This lead Dickinson to isolate herself, and write more about death. For instance, in her poem, “Because I could not stop for death”, she said, “The carriage held but just ourselves/and immortality,”(1.3-4). If Emily Dickinson’s avoidance of writing things straightforward and liking to telling the truth causes confusion, this quote means that in dying, they would live forever in death itself. Dickinson began to bring to light her new understanding of loss and death through her poetry. She incorporated her new found understanding and interest in death, realizing she had so much more to learn and experience. “I heard a fly buzz,” from her poem, “I heard a fly buzz- when I died,” portrays her hearing a fly buzzing instead of seeing some spiritual being, such as Christ, or spiritual revelations when dying(1.1). This shows that Dickinson started to think about death more and more throughout time. Then eventually, at the age of 56, while suffering from a case of Bright’s disease, Dickinson died on May 15th, 1886. Forever leaving an imprint of her feelings on people’s hearts. Never quite getting out her true understanding of death, for when she truly found it, it was too