Compare the voices of Emily Dickinson poems

Thesis Statement

The Emily Dickenson's two poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death “ and “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died” deal with the nature of death as a part of everyday life.

Introduction

Emily Dickenson's two poems are both about death. Death in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is kind and appealing. Death comes to get the person to take him/her on a journey in a carriage. The person is not dressed for the occasion as she experiences a chill. She is thinking back on her life and experiences as she is on her journey towards a new beginning. The poem presents death as a cycle and not an end. It is a comforting poem with a positive outlook of death (Dickinson, pp.16).

In the second verse "I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died" is about the groundwork before the person's death and the last moment. She has arranged her will “Signed away / What piece of me be / Assignable —”)and now she waits for "The King" to come. She hears the fly which will shortly protected his location with her in her serious as she decays. In the end when the window closes she has past away and there is not anything more. The verse is a bleak account of staining and does not talk of any tenderness (Diehl, pp.174).

Discussion and Analysis

Emily Dickson has used number of styles in her poems, which portrays human feelings, life after death and society as a whole. In her poems, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I heard a fly buzz when I die", show's one of the certainties in life: Death. There is not much of a difference in time between the two poems as both of them were written less than a year apart. In spite of that, the ideas in both the poems about life differ tremendously. In the first poem, the theme revolves around 'life after death', while in the other poem there is none (Dickinson, pp.18).

The poet Emily Dickinson has embraced death with a contradictory attitude in the eyes of the common man. Emily Dickinson has welcomed death as one of the parts of the cycle of life in which some divine wisdom can be earned. If most of the Dickinson's poems are analyzed, they all share the common topic of death. Both poems deal with the environment and concept of death by connecting it with part of everyday life; regardless, the tone and narration of the poem "I learned a go by plane buzz when I died" is much more solemn than that of the poem "Because I could not halt for death”.

If 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' is analyzed, the beginning lines personify Death and depicts the central figure as a friendly and cordial suitor courting the speaker on a pleasing carriage ride. Describing Death with words that characterize him as being “kindly” and displaying “Civility,” Dickinson offers a more positive view ...