as like the Stillness in the Air- Between the heaves of Storm.” In the poem, Dickinson describes every detail about how she is dying. It is her own portrayal of death in a sense. In another one of Dickinson’s poems, “The Bustle in a House” describes life after death, and what happens to love. In the poem Dickinson describes how the heart is swept up by love and love is put away and not used again until eternity. Funk and Wagnall’s dictionary describes eternity as “The endless time following death.” Dickinson is trying to imply that love should be put away until you see that certain loved one again after death or a state of eternity. In the poem Dickinson states, “The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity.” This signifies love after death.I feel that the meaning of pain doesn’t exist to Dickinson. In other words, pain has an element of blank or no meaning at all. Her focus on the structure of her poems avoids any experience or sensation of pain. She deals with death in a very calmly matter. Some of her poems make me wonder about her mental stability, but others make perfect sense in some weird sort of psychotic form. Overall, I think Dickinson is just trying to portray all of the hardships that she is going through in her life. BibliographyFunk and Wagnall’s Standard Desk Dictionary(1989), Vol. 1, p. 217Higginson, Thomas. Emily Dickinson And Poetry, Henry Holt and CompanyNew York, 1975. page. 122McPhee, John. American Poet, Harcourt: Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1970. Page 72Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience, Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey, 1989 Pages 378, 379, 383, 382...
