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A 6 page paper which considers how death has many meanings to the poet, as represented in the distinctive classes of poetry. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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properly! Throughout her lifetime, Emily Dickinson maintained an almost obsessive preoccupation with death. Of her nearly 1,800 poems, more than 500 of them feature the theme of death
(Emily Dickinson: A Separate World). For the reclusive New England poet, death had not a singular meaning, but could be interpreted in a variety of different ways.
She envisioned death as a journey toward immortality, but paradoxically, she also viewed it as the end of everything. While it may be regarded by some as resting in
peace, Dickinson often pondered the pain it inflicted upon the living. Finally, Emily Dickinson imaginatively personified both life and death, imbuing them with human characteristics, and portraying the inevitable
conflict between the two as warriors who would use whatever means were at their disposal to emerge victorious. For Emily Dickinson, death was everywhere and did not play favorites.
Paul J. Ferlazzo noted in his biography of Americas most celebrated female poet, "Death appears as... the great equalizer, the force, which claims without discrimination men and women from
every station of life" (52). The majority of Dickinsons death poetry concern, as described by literary critic Thomas Ford, "its intimate relation to immortality" (73). The Civil War was
being fought during Dickinsons most fertile period of creativity, and the deaths of many men on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line invariably weighed heavily upon this sensitive soul.
At least if immortality was factored into the death equation, these men would not have died in vain. In poem #341, Dickinson pondered the ritual ceremony of death, which
prepares the soul for its immortal afterlife: "After great pain, a formal feeling comes - / The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs - The stiff Heart questions was it He,
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