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How Does Dickinson Treat Immortality in Her Poems? 

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How does Dickinson treat immortality in her poems NU Immortality is a common theme in Emily Dickinson s - poetry She wrote about the soul s immortality after death in many of her poems In her poems death and immortality are not fearful Immortality in Because I could not stop for Death Dickinson s treatment of immortality is most noticeable in her poem Because I could not stop for Death In this poem she imagines Death as a kind gentleman who takes her on a carriage ride Immortality is also present on the carriage She writes The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality This journey on Death s carriage is symbolic It means the poet s death But the presence of Immortality on the carriage suggests that death is not the end Their journey continues into Eternity It means death is a way for our soul to be immortal

in the eternal afterlife Wild Nights Wild Nights Though this poem is mainly about love and passion it also carries a spiritual idea In the last stanza Dickinson compares her happiness to rowing in Eden She writes Rowing in Eden - Ah - the Sea Eden is the eternal paradise By connecting love s pleasure with Eden Dickinson suggests that our soul is immortal Our soul can rest eternally in heaven I felt a Funeral in my Brain In this poem immortality comes at the very end And Finished knowing then When the mind breaks and human sense is gone the poet seems to enter a new endless experience She cannot describe it fully This is why she ends the poem with then It hints that there is something more after human sense is gone To sum up Dickinson treats immortality as a journey beyond death She suggests our souls become immortal and take eternal rest in the afterlife

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