Emily Dickenson
Emily Dickinson was obsessed with death and its consequences especially the idea of eternity. ... Again Emily focuses on the previous world and on mortality and can not see into death and immortality. ... The passing on from life to death in Emily Dickinsons poetry often takes on the form of a journey. ... In many of her poems Emily Dickinson writes of a person on their deathbed as observers watch over her. ... It is evident that throughout Emily Dickinsons poetry she searched for the knowledge of what lies beyond life and in the mysteries of death and immortality.