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Essay Archive - Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz
When I Died"
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 were created less than a year apart by the same poet, their
ideas about what lies after death differ. In one, there appears to be life
after death, but in the other there is nothing. Only a number of clues in
each piece help us determine which poem beli....
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