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In three pages, these poems are contrasted and compared in terms of subject, context, cultural context, theme, setting, tone, speaker/character, form, and symbolism. One source is listed in the bibliography.
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who seldom ventured beyond her affluent familys comfortable Massachusetts home. Her voluminous collection of poetry was not published until after her death, and it is by analyzing her poems
that readers attempt to gain deeper perspectives into the poets life. Many of Dickinsons poems - such as #341 "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes" and #465 "I
Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died" - reflect a morbid preoccupation with death and dying: #341 After great pain a formal feeling comes-- The nerves sit ceremonious like
tombs; The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore? And yesterday--or centuries before? The feet, mechanical, go round A wooden way Of ground, or air, or ought, Regardless grown,
A quartz contentment, like a stone. This is the hour of lead Remembered if outlived, As freezing persons recollect the snow-- First chill, then stupor, then the letting go
(Dickinson 2501-2502). #465 I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.
The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed
away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed,
and then I could not see to see (Dickinson 2504). Both poems were written in 1862, the first full year of the Civil War. At this time, Union
casualties were high, and the mounting deaths of young Yankee soldiers may well have weighed heavily upon the devoutly religious spinster. Perhaps considering, comparing, and contrasting the subject, context,
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