Emily Dickinson's View Of Death
Death is a part of life, and most transcendentalists would understand that death happens to everyone. People all have their own way of dealing with death of a loved one; some individuals will mourn while others accept death. There may be a person that shuts off society. Another person may not show the pain of what he or she is going through, and just continue on with life. Views of death is a recurring theme in literature today, and in James Russell Lowell’s poem “The First Snowfall” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “The Bustle in a House”, both show a different viewpoint to a loved one’s death. In the poem “The First Snowfall”, the narrator begins his explanation of snow, but the reader does not know the true meaning behind the narrator’s
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In “The First Snowfall”, the narrator is a father that tells the reader of his observations of the snow. He later tells the reader that he has a daughter buried in the Mt. Auburn Cemetery. “Flake by Flake, healing and hiding” (Lowell 317) is a line that shows the deeper meaning behind the narrator’s feelings. The narrator takes steps at a time to get over the death of his love one because this death held a strong effect on the narrator. The step that the narrator took was kissing his daughter, but he eventually reveals the kiss was for his dead daughter. In the poem “The Bustle in a House”, Dickinson reveals that death of a loved one should be mourned for only a short time. The poet wrote “The Sweeping up the Heart” (Dickinson 339) to visually explain that a mourner must pick himself up and live on with the love that he has for eternity. The mood of the poem is very serious to explain the lesson. In “The First Snowfall”, Lowell creates a beautiful and soothing mood. “The First Snowfall” amplifies a loved one’s death takes time and steps to a healing process. “The Bustle in a House” strongly tells the reader to move on and not take eternity to heal because everyone must save the love and put it away. Death takes time to digest, but everyone copes with death at different
In “The First Snowfall”, the narrator is a father that tells the reader of his observations of the snow. He later tells the reader that he has a daughter buried in the Mt. Auburn Cemetery. “Flake by Flake, healing and hiding” (Lowell 317) is a line that shows the deeper meaning behind the narrator’s feelings. The narrator takes steps at a time to get over the death of his love one because this death held a strong effect on the narrator. The step that the narrator took was kissing his daughter, but he eventually reveals the kiss was for his dead daughter. In the poem “The Bustle in a House”, Dickinson reveals that death of a loved one should be mourned for only a short time. The poet wrote “The Sweeping up the Heart” (Dickinson 339) to visually explain that a mourner must pick himself up and live on with the love that he has for eternity. The mood of the poem is very serious to explain the lesson. In “The First Snowfall”, Lowell creates a beautiful and soothing mood. “The First Snowfall” amplifies a loved one’s death takes time and steps to a healing process. “The Bustle in a House” strongly tells the reader to move on and not take eternity to heal because everyone must save the love and put it away. Death takes time to digest, but everyone copes with death at different