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Essay Archive - Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz When I Died"
Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and "I heard A Fly Buzz
When I Died"
Two of Emily Dickinson's poems, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" and
"I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died," are both about one of life's few
certainties: death. However, that is where the similarities end. Although
both poems were created less than a year apart by the same poet, their
ideas about what lies after death differ. In one, there appears to be life
after death, but in the other there is nothin....
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