Dickinson's Death PicturesDeath is often considered a morbid or mysterious subject. Authors and poets spend their lives exploring the questions of what happens when a person dies and what lies beyond death. From the swollen heavens of the Bible to the many rings of Dante's hell, no one else has the same perspective on this subject as Emily Dickinson. Through her elliptical poems, Dickinson paints various views of death that reveal her multifaceted vision. She uses different methods to better understand the nature of death by dealing with the physical aspects of death in "I Hear a Fly Buzzing - When I Died", by personifying death in "Because I Couldn't Me". stop to die” and by reconciling death and immortality in “Behind me dives – Eternity”. All these poems help to better understand Emily Dickinson's point of view on death. During Dickinson's life, death was something that happened quite often and was never far from her mind. His house was next to the local cemetery, and with the Civil War raging, the cemetery always seemed to have a new plot of land. This is where she spent almost her entire life. Emily was born on December 10, 1830 in the “sleepy village” of Amherst, Massachusetts, dominated by “church and college” (Dickinson, Emily). Here she spent her childhood playing with her brother Austin and sister Lavinia and would later spend her adult years gardening and writing in solitude (Dickinson, Emily). Her isolation made her seem reclusive and antisocial. Emily Dickinson, however, attended school and graduated from Amherst Academy in 1947 before returning to her childhood home and becoming "a more than ordinary observer of Amherst life" (Dickinson, Emily). His voluntary isolation was not born...... middle of paper ......y like the “Setting Sun” (BOOK PG#). Works Cited Anderson, Charles R. "The Time Trap in Emily Dickinson's Poetry." ELH 26.3 (1959): 402-24. death in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Rev. Le Bulletin du Centre-Sud 27.1 (1967): 30-31. eternal themes." Canadian Social Sciences 5.5 (2009): 96-99. CSCanada. Canadian Academy of Eastern and Western Culture, July 2, 2009. Web. March 27, 2011. “Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886).” Encyclopedia of The World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Gale Biography in Context. March 27, 2012. Spencer, Mark. "Dickinson Is Because I Couldn't Stop to Die." 95-96. Taylor and Francis online. Atypon Literatum, August 7, 2010. Web.. 2012.