The Element of Death in Emily Dickinson’s Chosen Poems

Emily Dickinson is an influential woman- American poet who was known and praised internationally. Her poems were timeless and inspiring, yet the theme mostly talking about death. Death is a taboo topic in certain literary works, but not for Dickinson. This research talked about two of Dickinson’s poems, I eard A Fly Buzz-when I Died and It Was Not Death For I Stood Up which focusing on the moment of death. Using structuralism approach, this research discussed the analysis using the poetry elements. From the theory, the writers elaborated information regarding the expression of death portrayed in two chosen poems through their physical and mental elements. The writers obtained that both poems clearly shown a vivid expression about death with diction, imagery, concrete words, figure of speech, imagery, rhyme and rhythm, typography (physical elements), and sense, tone and feeling, intention (mental elements).