The poems of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson are known to be the cornerstones of American poetry in the way they view the aspect of life and death. The writers themselves could not have been more different in their poems on these subjects. Walt Whitman has been considered by many to be the grandfather of modern poetry. In his poems he expresses the journey of living and dying. Whitman also shows through his work the importance of staying outside of social norms while expressing himself in whatever way he sees fit. On the other hand, Emily Dickinson expresses the inevitability of death and the feeling of helplessness through her poems. Dickinson's poems corresponded to the way she lived her solitary life. Both poets felt a personal relationship with death and both knew that they would eventually die, but Whitman tries to fight it, while Dickinson accepts it. Although Walt Whitman was a very turbulent man who believed that life was meant to be lived, she was an introvert who kept to herself. She was mostly unknown before her death, and then several of her poems were discovered and published. She lived a solitary life with few friends, it was there that she acquired her view of death, as something exceptionally dark and gloomy. However, her view of death as something inevitable she shows in her poem “Because I Couldn't Stop to Die”. Emily Dickinson said, “He kindly stopped for me…” (Dickinson line 2). Emily Dickinson does not struggle or struggle with the idea of ​​death, she accepts it as something inevitable. She believes that nothing can or should be done to prevent death. His view of death is presented as something almost factual in his poems, in that it is an undeniable reality of life. For Emily Dickinson, the thought of death is something almost comforting and