"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died".
Emily Dickinson's poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", and "I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died", both deal with one of life's few certainties, death.
Dickinson's intense curiosity towards mortality was present in much of her work, and is her legacy as a poet.
"Because I could Not Stop for Death" is one of Emily Dickinson's most discussed and famous poems due to its ambiguous, and unique
view on the popular subject of …
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…of there being no afterlife. The woman's soul drifted off into nothingness because there was no afterlife for it to travel to. This is the complete opposite belief about afterlife in Dickinson's other poem,
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death", which indicated that life is a never-ending journey. These two poems deal with similar topics however they are entirely different in that one believes in lif! e after death
and the other does not.
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