In the Emily Dickinson poems "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died" one of life's greatest certainties is addressed through the use of structure, diction and syntax. ... The reader can also recognize the poem's theme by analyzing its structure and the impact of the structure upon the interpretation of the chosen words. ... Another way in which Dickinson uses form is when she ends the poem with a dash, which seems to indicate that the poem is never ending, just as eternity is never ending. ... Emily Dickinson's views on death changed fr...

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