The work of Emily Dickinson

Introduction

Emily Dickinson and her novels have taken the world of American literature by storm. Beginning with her passion to write at the age of 18, she did not set her ground with one set of poetry writing, thereby incorporating multiple aspects and outcomes, that not only provide for the creation and the aspect of a strong and constructive outcome.

Edward founded the Central Massachusetts Railroad railway line and also (with his father Samuel) The Amherst College, an educational institution somewhere between a school and the university that gave cultural luster to his forgotten and insignificant village (Comment, pp.167). Edward Dickinson's partner in his law firm was a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, for this reason, was always linked to the town of Amherst and influenced philosophy and work of Emily.

Edward's wife and mother of the poet was Emily Norcross Dickinson (1804 - 1882), who towards the end of his life, was bedridden and in charge of their daughters. Emily Dickinson had two brothers: the eldest, William Austin Dickinson (1829 - 1895), generally known by his middle name, married Susan Gilbert, a friend of his sister Emily, in 1856 and lived in the house adjoining that of his father (Martin, pp.20).

Poem 1: “Because I could not stop for Death”

In this poem, Dickenson describes the concept of living beyond death and imagining her journey with the death (Aiken, pp.15). The poem commemorates and describes about the journey of death.

Here, the death emerges as an incarnate of driver, in this poem, who tenderly persists that the narrator should set aside the labor and leisure of this mortal world and start preparing for the eternal world (Murray, pp.285). He lands in his carriage for her because she could not have stopped for him, and he even submits to a chaperone, “Immortality,” for the length of their outing together.

Analysis of the poem

The poem of Emily Dickinson defines the personification of death into the life of poet. The most crucial element here is the presentation of conventional vision of death. The Poet tries to explain that death has no terror or escape (Scott, pp.59). He comes slowly making you realize the worth of life. The poet is trying to explain her feelings and vows, as the death was appearing towards her.

The poet, with both affirmation and sorrow, describes the arrival of death that even death is an inevitable arrival; it arrives as its will and its might. For Dickinson, the ideology of death not only calls for understanding death is that each living soul that has entered the world, has to go through death and the pain that comes with it, which would then take you to a limitless, endless life (Aiken, pp.17).

While many people have fears, apprehensions, trauma and sadness associated with the realm of death, Dickinson promulgates and affirms the idea that it should make way for accepting death as it comes. According to her point of view, not only does it symbolize transition, but the only path through ...