Dickinson's Death Pictures Death is often considered a morbid or mysterious subject. Authors and poets spend their lives exploring questions about what happens when a person dies and what lies beyond death. From the floating heavens of the Bible to the many rings of Dante's Inferno, no one else has as much insight into this topic as Emily Dickinson. Through her elliptical poems Dickinson paints various visions of death that reveal her multifaceted vision. He uses different methods to gain insight into the nature of death by elaborating on the physical aspects of death in "I hear the buzz of a fly - when I died", personifying death in "Why I couldn't stop for death", and reconciling death and immortality in “Behind me he dives – Eternity”. All of these poems create a better understanding of Emily Dickinson's view of death. During Dickinson's life, death was something that happened quite often and was never far from her thoughts. His house was next to the local cemetery, and with the Civil War going on, the cemetery always seemed to have new ground. This is where he spent almost his entire life. Emily was born on December 10, 1830 in the "sleepy village" of Amherst, Massachusetts, dominated by "church and college" (Dickinson, Emily). Here he spent his childhood playing with his brother Austin and sister Lavinia and later spent his adulthood gardening and writing in solitude (Dickinson, Emily). His isolation gave the impression of being solitary and antisocial. Emily Dickinson, however, went to school and graduated from Amherst Academy in 1947 before returning to her childhood home and becoming "a more than ordinary observer of Amherst life" (Dickinson, Emily). His voluntary isolation was not b...... middle of paper ......y in the image of the “setting sun” (BOOK PG#). Works Cited Anderson, Charles R. "The Time Trap in Emily Dickinson's Poetry." ELH 26.3 (1959): 402-24. JSTOR. Network. March 28, 2012. Anderson, John Q. “Heaven Deceives the Weary: Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” Rev. of the book. The Central-Southern Bulletin 27.1 (1967): 30-31. JSTOR. Network. March 27, 2012.Chuan, Xiao -. "Death and immortality: the eternal themes". Canadian Social Sciences 5.5 (2009): 96-99. CSCanada. Canadian Academy of Eastern and Western Culture, July 2, 2009. Web. March 27, 2011. "Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)." Encyclopedia of World Biography. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Gale biography in context. Network. March 27, 2012.Spencer, Mark. "Dickinson is because I couldn't stop for death." The Explicator 65.2 (2007): 95-96. Taylor and Francis online. Atypon Literatum, 7 August 2010. Web. 27 March. 2012.