The Last Night That She Lived

Coping with death can be one of the hardest and most emotional tests of character one can be faced with. When you’re forced to deal with the passing of a loved one, your left with your grief, sorrow and the loneliness left behind. Yet in Emily Dickinson’s poem “The last Night that She lived” it is almost devoid of emotion entirely. The opening stanza gives a preview of the poem, its devoid of emotion, we have no relation to who has died, and no name given to make a connection or sympathize. The line “It was a Common Night/ Except the Dying” shows that the world or time does not stop when one person has died, and they have no significant importance to the speaker. But with the death comes an enlightenment where “we noticed smallest