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In four pages this paper compares and contrasts how these poets represent the theme of death in their respective poems. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
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to paint word pictures that oftentimes reveal more about the poet than about the subject. Death was a popular theme for two of Americas most revered poets, Emily Dickinson
(1830-1886) and Robert Frost (1874-1963) because it was such a permanent fixture in their lives. Miss Dickinson spent most of her life caring for ailing family members and then
mourning their losses while coping with her debilitating illness in later years. Many of her poems were written during the height of the Civil War, when countless American families
on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line were being torn apart by deaths of loved ones in combat. Robert Frosts long life was filled with a succession of deaths
- of his parents, his wife, and four children - and suffered frequent bouts of depression. Therefore, perhaps it is not surprising that two of these poets most famous
poems - Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death (#712) and Frosts Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - are structured around the theme of death. Each poem
is developed within a setting of nature. Perhaps this is because in nature, death is inescapable. Flowers bloom and then turn brown; leaves drop from the trees in
late autumn; butterflies soar for a short span of time; predatory animals kill their prey. In Poem 712, Dickinsons narrator observes, "We passed the fields of gazing grain, /
We passed the setting sun" (2511). Here, the contrasting images of life and death in nature are captured. Frosts poem is set in winter, which is often synonymous
with the sleep of death in nature. His narrator ponders, "My little horse must think it queer / To stop without a farmhouse near / Between the woods and
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