Emily Dickinson is perhaps the greatest female poet in the history of prose writing. She is also one of the most spiritual and confusing. Dickinson had a very active, sharp-witted mind, and her poems are truly fascinating to read. She seemed obsessed with what was to come next after this world’s life was over. Many of her numerous poems consider what the afterlife is like and all of them differ. Poems such as “Because I could not stop for Death,” “My life closed twice before its close,” and “The…
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