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　　Abstract: Death and eternity are the major themes in most of Emily Dickinson’s poems.“ Because I could not stop for death ”is one of her classic poems. Through the analysis, this essay clarifies infinite conceptions by the

　　dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the known and

　　the unknown. And it tells what’s eternity in Dickson’s eyes.

　　Keywords: death, eternity, finite, infinite

　　Introduction

　　Emily Dickinson(1830-1886), the American best-known female poet ，was

　　one of the foremost authors in American literature. Emily Dickinson ’s

　　poems, as well as Walt Whitman’s, were considered as a part of "American

　　renaissance"; they were regarded as pioneers of imagism. Both of them rejected

　　custom and received wisdom and eXPerimented with poetic style. She however

　　differs from Whitman in a variety of ways. For one thing, Whitman seems

　　to keep his eye on society at large; Dickinson eXPlores the inner life

　　of the individual. Whereas Whitman is "national" in his outlook, Dickinson

　　is "regional"

　　Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10,1830.

　　She lived almost her entire life in the same town (much of it in the same

　　house), traveled infrequently, never married, and in her last years never

　　left the grounds of her family. So she was called "vestal of Amherst".

　　And yet despite this narrow -- some might say -- pathologically constricted-outward

　　eXPerience, she was an extremely intelligent, highly sensitive, and deeply

　　passionate person who throughout her adult life wrote poems (add up to

　　around 2000 ) that were startlingly original in both content and technique,

　　poems that would profoundly influence several generations of American poets

　　and that would win her a secure position as one of the greatest poets that

　　America has ever produced.

　　Dickinson’s simply constructed yet intensely felt, acutely intellectual

　　writings take as their subject issues vital to humanity: the agonies and

　　ecstasies of love, sexuality, the unfathomable nature of death, the horrors

　　of war, God and religious belief, the importance of humor, and musings

　　on the significance of literature, music, and art.

　　Emily Dickinson enjoys the King James Version of the Bible, as well

　　as authors such as English WRTERS William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles

　　Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Thomas Carlyle.

　　Dickinson’s early style shows the strong influence of William Shakespeare,

　　Barrett Browning, Scottish poet Robert Browning, and English poets John

　　Keats and George Herbert. And Dickinson read Emerson appreciatively, who

　　became a pervasive and, in a sense, formative influence over her. As George

　　F. Whicher notes, "Her sole function was to test the Transcendentalist

　　ethic in its application to the inner life".

　　1“death” in Emily Dickinson’s poets

　　For as long as history has been recorded and probably for much longer,

　　man has always been different idea of his own death. Even those of us who

　　have accepted death graciously, have at least in some way, --- feared,

　　dreaded, or attempted to delay its arrival. We have personified death--

　　as an evildoer dressed in all black, its presence swoops down upon us and

　　chokes the life from us as though it were some street