Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" And "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
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Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz
Two of Emily Dickinson's poems, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and
"I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died," are both about one of life's few
certainties: death. However, that is where the similarities end. Although
both poems w ....
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.... A Swelling of the Ground- The Roof was scarcely visible- The
Cornice in the Ground-" (913). Although the poem does not directly say it,
it is highly probable that this grave is the woman's own. It is also
possible the woman's body already rests beneath the soil in a casket. If
this is at all accurate, then her spirit or soul may be the one who is
looking at the "house." Spirits and souls usually mean there is an
afterlife involved.
It isn't until the sixth and final stanza where the audienc ....
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