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A 3 page paper which examines how Emily Dickinson deals with immortality in her poems Dying and The Chariot. No additional sources cited.
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perhaps consumed or obsessed with the idea of death, while also clearly seeing death as a very natural part of life itself. The following paper examines how the poetess sees
and presents the reader with immortality in her poems Dying (1I heard a fly buzz when I died) and The Chariot (1Because I could not stop for Death).
Immortality in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson In her poem dying she offers, in the first line, that image of a fly that is buzzing around the dead, stating, "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" (Dickinson [2] 1-4). She seems perfectly
at ease with death, and that final act of dying, and makes note of how she seems to have been trying to focus on giving away her things, "willed" her
"keepsakes" "and then/...interposed a fly" (Dickinson [2] 9, 11-12). At this point there was color and light and then it left the narrator in a position where they "could not
see to see" (Dickinson [2] 16). In essence they were dead and could no longer see or feel or think or experience anything. In this poem it becomes clear
that in the process of dying Dickinson believed there were senses, and perhaps there were senses upon death as well. But that sense of immortality, of perhaps a heaven or
afterlife, seems non-existent. There is suddenly nothing, no light, no seeing, no sound. There appears to be no sensation and no awareness. In this respect one could well argue that
Dickinson sees immortality, in this poem, as true death, as a true end to life and that nothing exists afterwards. Immortality is nothingness. In her other poem, The Chariot,
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