Similarities Between Because I Could Not Stop For Death And I Heard A Fly Buzz
The Mysteries of Death; The afterlife awaiting
“Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” are two related poems Dickinson wrote, on the other hand, they are also very different in the perspective and attitudes towards Death and afterlife, therefore, death is gentle and not an end but nevertheless, a cycle. Both poems revolve around one central theme, which is death. This is effortlessly identified mainly by glancing at the first line of each of the poems, “because I could not stop for death” (Dickinson 1), and “ I heard a fly buzz when I died” (Dickinson 1). The poems are very alike due to the theme, moreover the message of the effect of death and the circumstances after this event, differences in both poems. …show more content…
Death stops by to take the person to a journey in “The Carriage held by just [them]” and takes her in a trip with a new beginning, leaving past life behind (Dickinson 3). Death is presented as a cycle and not as an end, because of the reaching of “immortality” (Dickinson 4), and never actually dying or being mortal. The poem expresses feelings of joy and calmness, and presents death as serene, peaceful and full of “civility” (Dickinson 8), with good manners and extraordinary gentility. Consecutively, the speaker describes the scenes transported with the company of the personified death. They “passed the school…passed the field of gazing grain… [and] the setting sun”(Dickinson 9-12), suggesting that death is just another part of the actual life and not an ending of
“Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died” are two related poems Dickinson wrote, on the other hand, they are also very different in the perspective and attitudes towards Death and afterlife, therefore, death is gentle and not an end but nevertheless, a cycle. Both poems revolve around one central theme, which is death. This is effortlessly identified mainly by glancing at the first line of each of the poems, “because I could not stop for death” (Dickinson 1), and “ I heard a fly buzz when I died” (Dickinson 1). The poems are very alike due to the theme, moreover the message of the effect of death and the circumstances after this event, differences in both poems. …show more content…
Death stops by to take the person to a journey in “The Carriage held by just [them]” and takes her in a trip with a new beginning, leaving past life behind (Dickinson 3). Death is presented as a cycle and not as an end, because of the reaching of “immortality” (Dickinson 4), and never actually dying or being mortal. The poem expresses feelings of joy and calmness, and presents death as serene, peaceful and full of “civility” (Dickinson 8), with good manners and extraordinary gentility. Consecutively, the speaker describes the scenes transported with the company of the personified death. They “passed the school…passed the field of gazing grain… [and] the setting sun”(Dickinson 9-12), suggesting that death is just another part of the actual life and not an ending of