Comparison and Contrast of Dickinson's Poems, Because I Couldn't Stop to Die and I Heard the Buzz of a Fly - When I diedEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. As a young child, she displayed a brilliant intelligence and was able to create many recognizable writings. Many close friends and relatives in Emily's life were taken from her by death. Living a life of simplicity and distance, she wrote poetry of great power: questioning the nature of immortality and death. Although her work was influenced by the great poets of the time, she published many powerful poems herself. Two of Emily Dickinson's famous poems, "Because I Couldn't Stop to Die" and "I Heard the Buzz of a Fly - When I Died", both speak of the few certainties of life, the death, and that's where the similarities end. Although both poems were written by the same poet around the same time, their idea of ​​what happens after death differs. In one of the poems there seems to be life after death, while in the other poem there is nothing. For example, in her work “Because I Could Not Stop to Die,” Dickinson tells the reader the story of a woman taken away by death. Death would take women to hell or heaven, giving us our first indication of an afterlife. Still in the fifth stanza, Death and the woman stop in front of a house where they see “…The roof was barely visible – The cornice in the ground-”; the woman lies in the ground, where her soul and spirits look toward the house, representing an afterlife. As the poem advances to the sixth stanza, the reader receives conclusive proof of the afterlife when the woman relives how centuries have passed since death came to visit her...... middle of paper ......rituals. For example, in her work “Because I Could Not Stop to Die,” Dickinson used personification to resemble Death as a person. Additionally, in her poem “I Heard a Fly Buzz – When I Died,” she uses “the windows” (423) as her eyes when the woman dies. Although Emily Dickinson was a private person throughout her life, some critics gave a negative review. view of his work. For example, the work “Because I could not stop to die” disagrees with the woman of the 19th century. Critics suggest that this work by Dickinson had a negative influence on marriage and independent women. They believe that the proper place for a woman is next to her husband, but a woman without a husband, according to Dickinson, is insecure in herself. Even though the independent woman has a life, she literally speaks through a grave. She was deceived, led to her death and abandoned.