The poem seems to get faster as.
life goes through its course. In lines 17 and 18, however, the poem.
seems to slow down as Dickinson writes, "We paused before a House that.
seemed / A Swelling of the Ground-." The reader is given a feeling of.
life slowly ending. Another way in which Dickinson uses the form of the.
poem to convey a message to the reader occurs on line four as she writes,.
"And Immortality." The word "Immortality" is given a line by its! elf to.
show its importance. Perhaps the most notable way in which Dickinson.
uses form is when she ends the poem with a dash, which seems to indicate.
that the poem is never ending, just as eternity is never ending.
"I heard a Fly buzz-when I died," points to a disbelief in heaven or any.
form of afterlife. In this poem, a woman is lying in bed with her family.
and friends standing all around waiting for her to die. While the family.
is waiting for her to pass on, she is waiting for ".the King." This.
symbolizes some sort of god that will take her away. As the woman dies,.
her eyes, or windows as they are referred to in the poem, fail and.
then she ".could not see to see-." As she died she saw "the light".
but then her eyes, or windows, failed and she saw nothing. This is the.
suggestion 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.
Life, death, and reincarnation are portrayed in Emily Dickinson's poem "I.
Felt A Funeral In My Brain." The use of words associated with death gives.
the poem an ominous and dark persona. To add to this tone, important.
words that are strong in meaning are capitalized.
