dc.description.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. | en_US |