Why Death€"Nor the use of the poetic techniques of point of view, tone, and
             metaphor is not to be feared, at least according to Emily Dickinson
             It is often said that death, because it was a more constant presence
             in the lives and living rooms of the inhabitants of Early American New
             England, was not regarded with the same fear and horror that we, the
             contemporary residents of America are apt to regard the final exit from the
             living world. This may or may not be the case, as it is difficult to
             measure' fear. However, it is clear by the way that Emily Dickinson as an
             individual and as a poet deployed the poetic devices of point of view,
             tone, and metaphor, that she was intent upon attempting to convince her
             readers and perhaps herself that death was merely another mode of
             existence, and therefore not something to dread. Death is another world
             and state of being, rather than a termination of being itself, in
             One of the Belle of Amherst's (as the poet is often called today
             although, not during her own obscure lifetime) most famous poems is "I
             heard a Fly buzzâ€"when I died€"" This poem, like "I felt a funeral, in my
             Brain," takes the reader by immediate surprise because of its narration by
             an apparently dead individual. However, rather than mourning her passing,
             the poetic narrator of both texts observes the events of the death room,
             coolly and dispassionately, much like a reporter, without regrets as to
             If the poet were to take the point of view, in "I heard a Fly buzz" of
             the "eyes around" or the mourners of "I felt a funeral," the poems would be
             quite different. Even the heartiest living mourner would probably be
             tempted to reflect somberly about death, or about the life of the departed
             individual. But by narrating the poem from the point of view of a dead
             woman, the poems contain no past, no reflections upon the meaning of de...