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In five pages this paper presents a comparative poetic analysis of how each poet examines the theme of death in their respective poems. Four sources are listed in the bibliography.
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than Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) and Dylan Thomas (1914-1953). Miss Dickinson was a prim and proper New England spinster who was the epitome of Victorian virtue. She lived most
of her 55 years as a virtual recluse, and the bulk of her poems were not published until after her death. Dylan Thomas was a boozing, hell-raising Welshman who
delighted in carousing and burning the candle at both ends until his premature death from alcoholism at 39. He achieved international fame as a poet in his lifetime, and
delighted in his celebrity status and the excesses it accorded him. But Emily Dickinson and Dylan Thomas were both moody artists who shared a morbid fascination with death, which
emerges as a primary theme in several of their poems. Two of their most poignant poetic considerations of death are Dickinsons "The Bustle in a House" (also known as
poem #1078), which was written in 1866, and Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," which was written in 1951. "The Bustle in a House" is one of
Dickinsons shortest verses, and does not rely upon natural imagery to convey its message, as do most of her poems: THE BUSTLE in a house The morning after death Is
solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to
use again Until eternity (Dickinson 2517). This poem describes the ritualistic manner the funeral preparations that accompany the death of a family member, something with which the poet was
all too painfully familiar. During the latter portion of her life, Emily Dickinson would suffer in rapid succession the losses of her parents, her nephew, two close friends, and
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