La fenomenología de la muerte en la poesía de Emily Dickinson

Abstract

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.