Death: A Relative Topic

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst Massachusetts, in 1830 and died in 1886. A shy, reclusive person, Dickinson has come to be known as one of America’s greatest poets. Even though only seven of Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime, her poetry was published after her death and was available to the public in 1890. The subjects of her poems were mainly of love, death, nature, immortality, and beauty. One of Dickinson’s better known …

…many poets like to explore. Death is considered the great unknown since everyone who traveled there has died and won’t be coming back. In her poem entitled, “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” Emily Dickinson personifies Death, while Christina Rossetti symbolizes death through Sleep in her poem, “Sleeping at Last.” Even though it is presented differently, both poems share the theme of death, something we can all relate to one way or another.