Dickinson's topic that she preferred to choose

jocelynxu

No doubtedly,Emily Dickinson preferred to choose "death" as her theme in poems to some degree. She
straight mentioned words such as "Funeral","died for...","when I died.." To dramatize this theme,there are some poems selected from her collected poems,from which we may be strongly shocked by her frank atitude toward the end of life,esp. writing words barely to depict it. Take one for example.

Because I could not stop for Death----

Because I could not stop for Death----
He kindly stopped for me----
The Carriage held but just Ourselves----
And Immortality.

We slowly drove----He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too.
For His Civility----

We passed the School,where Children strove
At Recess----in the Ring----
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain----
We passed the Setting Sun---

Or rather----He passed Us----
The Dews drew quivering and chill----
For only Gossamer,my Gown----
My Tippet----only Tulle----

We paused before a house that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground----
The Roof was scarcely visible----
The Cornice----in  the Ground----

Since then----'tis Centuries----and yest
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity----

The stanza in green may be the outline of one's life from his childhood to adult until his old age.The image she created is worth pondering as well as appreciating,isn't it?

怀抱花朵的孩子

Who is he? Why I so strongly feel this "he" just the "Death"?
Here The poet and the "Death" conspired to deceive and delude the readers.

jocelynxu

To a great deal of extent,"he" means "the Death". Here Dickinson treats the Death as a gentleman, e.g.
in " For His Civility----"