Emily Dickinson's poetry goes where most poets refuse to go: fear beyond death. Being surrounded by death, due to the Civil War, it is not surprising that Dickinson would express such a morbid subject. However, it is the way she expresses death that is significant. His writings tend to go against his Puritan heritage by not suggesting an afterlife. In Dickinson's poems, "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain," "I Heard a Fly Buzzing When I Died," and "Because I Couldn't Stop to Die," forgetting is the object to be feared, not death. No one can dispute that. against the fact that Dickinson’s “dashes appear to be entirely deliberate” (Fagan 1). The accent or meaning of the hyphens remains to be determined; However, in "Because I Couldn't Stop to Die", "I Heard a Buzzing When I Died", and "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain", the poem ends with a hyphen for “to suggest that the poem has no end at any point.” all” (Fagan 3). Ending the following poems with an elusive feature, “[the poem’s] meaning lies in absence; meaning is what neither we nor she can know, but which the line invites us to seek” (Fagan 5). It is the dash at the end of the poems that leaves the resolution unknown. Another impact of Dickinson's extensive use of dotted lines "features endless verbal deaths as ideas and statements arrive quickly and then expire, each like a final breath, leaving a tenuous breath." sometimes connections between lines. Dashes within the line stop other progressions, such as separating subjects from verbs evoking the body moving away from the activity of life” (Barnsley 1). The unknown of how events will unfold causes terror. In Dickinson's poetry, "it is this forgetting where the terror resides, and not the process of death itself" (Barnsley 2). Dickinson's belief that "the... middle of paper......ily Dickinson, new edition, Bloom's Modern Critical Views." New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 2008. Bloom Literature. Facts about File, Inc. Web. April 30, 2014Huff, Randall. "'I felt a funeral in my brain'." The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry, Vol. 1. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. Bloom Literature. Facts about File, Inc. Web. April 30, 2014 Leiter, Sharon. "'I felt a funeral in my brain'." Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work, Critical Companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom Literature. Facts about File, Inc. Web. April 30, 2014 Leiter, Sharon. “'I heard a fly buzzing—when I died—'.” Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work, Critical Companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2006. Bloom Literature. Facts about File, Inc. Web. April 30. 2014