The Sinister Beauty of Death

Throughout the history of human kind, there have existed a significant number of poets, who did not care to write about “happy things.” Rather, they concerned themselves with unpleasant and sinister concepts, such as death. Fascination and personification of death has become a common theme in poetry, but very few poets mastered it as well as Emily Dickinson did. Although most of Dickinson’s poems are morbid, a reader has no right to overlook the …

…diction sharpens our perception of her poem and her state of mind. When Emily Dickinson meets her ultimate companion, she does not panic; she gives Him her hand. She peacefully departs into the next world, not knowing what awaits her there. Dickinson understands that she is not alone and she is certainly not afraid. Why should we be? Works Consulted Charters, Ann and Samuel. Literature and Its Writers (An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama). 1997