entation or loss of the ability to perceive, reason, and function successfully within the realm of practical daily experience. There is the possibility that she herself might have fully experienced the painful departure of reality.The many losses she experienced throughout her life may have lead her to write about death to such an enormous amount. The death of her father, mother, close neibors, and friends impacted her life to a great extent, she speculated on the subject even more as you can see through her letters and poems. Close friends such as, Sophia Holland, Leonard Humphrey, and Benjamin Newton, all of whom died before she reached maturity; and her letters from the period reveal the melancholy states produced in her by their deaths. Two psychological interpretations have been advanced to explain her interest in death. Clark Griffith has suggested a Freudian interpretation: “Certainly Miss Dickinson would appear to process, in a rare abundance, each classic symptom of the death wish, not only the tendency to brood about death, but likewise the simultaneous fear-and-fascination which prompts the brooding must always cumilate.” 12 And in John Cody’s opinion, he enumerates the emotional sources of her preoccupation with death: “ (1) fears of abandonment; (2) projection of anger; and (3) guilt feelings toward her mother.”13 However others may describe her interest about death, we shouldn’t ignore Dickinson’s own testament’s about what was in her mind and heart. In one letter she wrote, “I sing , as the Boy does by the Burying Ground—because I am afraid” (siv). She restated this idea in one of her poems, “ I sing to use the waiting...To keep the dark away”. Surrounded by death, by darkness, writing poetry became for her an act of courage meant to affirm her fragile life. With her great creative spirit, she transformed human frailty, fear, and anxiet...
