Emily Dickinson, in her work collaboration of poems, compiled in "The Poems
             of Emily Dickinson" explores metaphors concentrating on many recurring
             themes including that of immortality. Immortality is not necessarily
             described by Dickinson, as a state of life that never dies, but rather
             immortality is expressed as a state of continuous birth, death and rebirth.
             Immortality is also discussed as a state of existing in the hereafter, or
             in Heaven by the poet. Throughout her poems, Dickinson seems to be at a
             crossroads regarding the idea of immortality; a majority of her poems
             express a desire to reach the everlasting hereafter, yet Dickinson seems
             somewhat uncertain that such a state actually exists.
             In her open ended poem, "Because I could not stop for death" Emily
             Dickinson explores the idea of immortality. After discussing scenes that
             pass through various stages in the day, the author concludes that in fact
             centuries have past, and states regarding time: "Feels shorter than the
             Day/I first surmised the Horses Heads/Were toward Eternity" (Eberwein, 14).
             The author seems to; in this instance affirm the possibility of
             immortality. Dickinson in fact suggests sharing a carriage with death and
             expresses time as a type of blind eternity (Eberwein, 137).
             This particular poem goes on to explore death as a "genteel" process, one
             that is accompanied by a chaperon (Immortality in the poem" that "ensures
             the speaker's safety from any untoward advance" (Eberwein, 14). Death is
             described as a last trip down the road to eternity. Dickinson portrays
             death as a natural and comfortable process in the poem, and also emphasizes
             that it is not necessarily the last stop on the journey of existence.
             Dickinson does however; appear to be uncertain in other poems in her work
             as to whether or not immortality is possible. In the poem "I heard a Fly
             buzz-when I died" Dickinson describes the moment of deat...