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Emily Dickenson And the Theme of Death
Emily Dickenson, an unconventional 19th century poet, used death as the
theme for many of her poems. Dickenson's poems offer a creative and
refreshingly different perspective on death and its effects on others. In
Dickenson's poems, death is often personified, and is also assigned to
persona ....
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.... the feet as "mechanical" shows the agitation and displacement of the
mourners. Also, in the next line, "Ought" most closely means "Emptiness."
Dickenson artistically shows us how the mourners are dealing with their loss in
this next passage:
"A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone--"
To deal with their loss, the mourners have separated themselves from the rest of
the world. Their reaction to this catastrophe has become one of denial, causing
each to develop "A...contentment, like a stone--."
"Because I ....
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