Death What Thread

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Throughout her opus, Emily Dickinson both conforms to and subverts contemporary cultural and literary motifs, revealing her ambivalence towards many transcendentalist tenets her contemporaries find absolute

Question 2

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This indeterminacy is particularly evident in her preoccupation with death and what follows.

Question 3

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While much of her poetry, such as Frost and Because explore the gothic omnipotence of death, her work also reflects upon the mundanity of Death as a result of sanitized death bed vigils.