Reflection of Death in the selected poems of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath

Abstract

Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath are the well-known poets among all greatest American poets. Death is a prevalent theme of both Dickinson and Plath. The poets expressed the trauma of their lives and thoughts of death according to their sight. Death is an unabated touchstone for life according to Dickinson's perspective. She reflected the most crucial reality of life "Death" in majority of her poems. She was concerned about the supreme rituality of death. A panoramic sight of different issues such as God, life, religion, Nature, love, immortality, afterlife was investigated by both Dickinson and Plath's poems. There will be analysed the sorrows, sufferings and experiences of their life that reflects throughout their death-themed poetry. However, death is such powerful reality that reveals not only the contradictions, absurdities of the author's life, but also directly connected with ours. Throughout study of this theme in this paper, it will be mentioned that death is such a painful aspect, that always stay beside us like a friend. So, the aim of this paper is to examine and critically analyse these images and thoughts of death in some selected poems of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath very closely and faithfully.