A Deeper Meaning In Emily Dickinson's Poems

Poems are read by many for their personal entertainment and often rhyme. As such, these poems may also have a deeper meaning that only fewer people bother to seek out. Along with this, there is also an inevitable theme that lies within each and every poem made by one author merging all of their ideas into one. With this, two authors have made a series of poems that may have a depth far below the surface or literal meaning of them. Along with the meaning, the authors that made them also left an intended or even unpurposeful hint that all of their poems share. The first of these two authors is Emily Dickinson. To begin, Emily Dickinson has written several poems, the first of which to be analyzed being “Because I could not stop for Death”. The
The same rules apply for her last poem for this poem as well. The fly and it buzzing obviously mean something in this poem as they are capitalized, giving us an obvious clue. The first stanza talks about how distracting the fly really is. It says that there was a, “stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm.” (p. 2) These give the reader a good sense of how the room feels by using imagery. This is also generally saying that the room was of still nature and silent behavior making the fly’s buzzing that much more emphasizing. She was also doing a task before this happened, “I willed my keepsakes, signed away” (p. 2). She also mentions this fly buzzing once again, “and then There interposed a fly,” (p. 2). Finally, she ends off with, “With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me;” (p. 2). With this information we can infer that the fly is her sins from her lifetime and the buzzing is the constant reminding of them. We infer this as these are among the many things people think of directly before death. The reason that the fly is sin specifically is because it went between her and
Frost’s poems is called “Fire and Ice”. This is a debate between whether the world would end in fire or ice. From the title, it’s quite obvious that he uses juxtaposition in the surface of the poem. In the poem, he makes obvious relations to what fire and ice represent. Fire represents desire when he said, “From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire.” (p. 5) Ice represents hate when he said, “I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.” (p. 5) This is mentioning that he believes that the world could end in one of two ways, it could end by individual pursuit of desire or it could end by humanity’s hatred for eachother. It’s also natural that desire ensues most people, for even the author is on the side of desire in this case. After reading two of his poems, it is still quite unclear on what his common theme