Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Book Reports Emily DIckinson Emily DIckinson 3) Emily Dickinson’s Portrayal of Death a) “I felt a Funeral in my Brain” b) “I heard a Fly Buzz when I died” c) “My life closed twice before its close” d) Conclusion and analysis of Dickinson’s portrayal of death “Emily Dickinson’s Poems about death grew out of her reactions to the tragic events in her personal life.” In three of her poems, her style of writing reflects her way of life. “I heard a Fly buzz when I died”, “My life closed twice before its close” and “I felt a Funeral in my brain” all reflect on Dickinson’s feelings and emotions towards In “I felt a funeral in my Brain”, Dickinson describes her own funeral in perfect detail. As if she is an observer of the service. As shown in the title of the poem, Dickinson seems to be feeling all of these emotions in her “brain” or so she states. “And when they all were seated. A Service, like a Drum-kept beating-beating-beating-till I thought My Mind was going numb.”2 Dickinson’s method of describing her funeral is shown is first person perspective after the tenth line of the poem. “And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of lead. Again. Then Space-began to toll.” ”I heard a Fly buzz when I died” is Dickinson’s portrayal of her death and her surroundings at the time of her death. John McPhee sates that “Death and the thought of death influence our way of life and our daily action.” Dickinson was very dolorous after her father left her and she ostracized her self from society. She then coerced herself into feelings of suicide. In this poem, she bases her main idea around the element of a material object, which in this case, is the fly. “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-The stillness in the Room Was 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. Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Desk Dictionary(1989), Vol. 1, p. 217 Higginson, Thomas. Emily Dickinson And Poetry, Henry Holt and Company McPhee, John. American Poet, Harcourt: Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1970. Page 72 Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience, Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey, 1989 Bibliography: Bibliography Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Desk Dictionary(1989), Vol. 1, p. 217 Higginson, Thomas. Emily Dickinson And Poetry, Henry Holt and Company New York, 1975. page. 122 McPhee, John. American Poet, Harcourt: Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1970. Page 72 Prentice Hall Literature: The American Experience, Prentice Hall Inc, New Jersey, 1989 Pages 378, 379, 383, 382 Word Count: 627
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