In the poems "Because I could not stop for Death," and "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died," by Emily Dickinson, the poet's diction, imagery techniques, form and individual style greatly contributed to my understanding of these poems. Both of these poems look at death from unusual perspectives. "Because I could not stop for Death," is Dickinson's interpretation of death from an immortal viewpoint, rather than the conventional mortal one. The poem describes a carriage journey with Death "towards Eternity." In "I heard a Fly buzz - when I died," Dickinson dissects the last moments of her life, her passing from the mortal world. Dickinson confronts her ignorance of immortality and the afterlife. She forces us to question what happens after death, for she has concluded that this is unanswerable, for not even the dying can confirm what happens after our mortal lives have ended. In...