Does Emily Dickinson ever harbor fear toward death?
Emily Dickinson did fear death. she showed it in “I Heard a Fly buzz- when I died” and “I felt Funeral in my Brain.” In “Fly”, she left the reader with a sudden, disturbing end when she died and “could not see to see”, or she could no longer use her eyes and tell what was going on. In “Funeral”, the overall tone she shows is fearful. She described herself as alone with silence, and a “Plank” of reason breaking. She falls and ends with a cliffhanger.
