Yet why would one risk their life for the unknown? Ford continues by explaining that, for her, the idea of immortality was not to be grasped as an abstraction, but by comparison to concrete sensation (14). Emily Dickinson wants to actually experience life after death and not just hear about it. It may be that Mans ability to foresee death is at the core of religion in general; certainly Emily Dickinson saw the two as closely related(Ford 19). Dickinson is so eager, yet hesitant at the same time, to see heaven and the wonderful life without sorrow or danger to come - if there is one. Emily Dickinsons feelings of pain and despair are revealed throughout her poetry as a cry of misery and a way out of her grief. Keller explains that Dickinson found...that certain language structures were for her a measure of security, that she was vulnerable to criticism, that she was deliberately myopic about societys forms, that she went wild, that she found poetry fun and funny(7). Poetry was a friend to EmilyDickinson whom she could express all of her inner thoughts and not be criticized. Bloom adds a further insight to better understand the causes of her obsession for death:The theme of extreme pain has made inevitable the conjecture that some experience of unusual intensity was the source of it. She distinguishes misery, throughout her poetry, as a hurt that can be relieved from suffering....yet these milder aches and griefs did not challenge her powers of analysis.... she simply separates the lesser pains that will heal from the greater pains that will not and chooses the latter as her special concern....her effect of reality is achieved not by an accent on pleasure or pain but by her dramatic use of their interaction. (9-10)It is apparent from Emily Dickinsons poetry that she experienced much gloom and misery throughout her life and had many confusing questions which were eager to be answered. Her poetry was meant to be a way for her to ex...
