This paper is an attempt to analyze the mystical and mythical
implications of death in Emily Dickinson's poetry, evidencing the magicoreligious
quality of her spiritual universe. Heavily relying on the neoplatonic
body of thought. Emily Dickinson does not regard death as the total
annihilation of existence; in spite of the terror and anguish it evokes, death
is a stage within an initiatory process and constitutes a pathway to a higher
spiritual mode of being. Seen from this mythical perspective, death
arrogates itself a spiritualizing and creative function which changes man's
ontological status.
