The Last Night that She Lived

Dickinson writes about a lady that is dying peacefully. The language used presents the speaker's attitude as accepting, towards the woman's death. In "The Last Night that She Lived," Dickinson uses repitition, imagery, and personification to portray the speaker's attitude. In the third stanza Dickinson writes, "Between Her final Room And Rooms Where Those to be alive Tomorrow were." This emphasizes the pain that everyone was going through, knowing that this was the last room …

…her death. Personification is also used when Dickinson writes about the "reed." She says that the reed does not struggle, it just slowly gives up. Like the lady, she just peacefully died. Dickinson writes about a natural occurance in everyone's life. The speaker has realized that the time has come for this lady to die and they have accepted. There is nothing they can do, but try and make the process as calm as possible.