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…in the future procession and not the death that has just occurred. This is unusual, because most poems on death seek to offer comfort or create some emotion about death. Here, the death of a human is abandoned to explore the unemotional actions that happen after death. Dickinson does not write of mourning, but of the practical tasks that must be done. She focuses on the formal and the exterior parts of death. Bibliography none