Emily Dickinson once said, “Dying is a wild night and a new road.” Some people welcome death with open arms while others cower in fear when confronted with the arms of death. Through the use of ambiguity, metaphors, personification, and paradoxes, Emily Dickinson still gives readers a sense of vagueness about how she feels about death. Emily Dickinson creatively expresses the nature of death in the poems “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280),” “I Heard a fly Buzz—When I Died— (465),” and “Because I couldn't stop for death " —(712)”. Emily Dickinson, who achieved greater fame after her death, is considered one of the greatest American poets of all time. Dickinson communicated through letters and notes and according to Amy Paulson Herstek, author of “Emily Dickinson: Solitary and Celebrated Poet,” “Writing was how she kept in touch with the world” (15). Dickinson's style is unique and, although unconventional, has resulted in extraordinary literary works. Dickinson lived her life in solitude, but in her solitude she was free to read, write, and think, which led to her nonconformity and strong sense of individualism. Suzanne Juhasz, a biographer of Dickinson, ideally sums up the idea that most critics have of Dickinson: “Emily Dickinson is at once the most intimate of poets and the most guarded. The most self-sufficient and the most needy. The proudest and the most vulnerable. These contradictions, which we readers encounter repeatedly in her poems, are understandable, not paradoxical, because they result from the tension between the life she was born into and the one she aspired to” (1). Dickinson poured her heart and soul into over 1,700 poems, 600 of which are about death. Paul J. Ferlazzo, one of the authors of “Emily Dickinson” writes...... in the center of the sheet ......d A. Walton Litz. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991. Literary resources from Gale. Network. April 10, 2011.Hochman, Jhan. "Critical Essay on 'I Heard the Buzz of a Fly - When I Died -'." Poetry for students. Mary K. Ruby. vol. 5. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Literary resources from Gale. Network. April 10, 2011. Morningstar, Carolyn. “‘Uncertain stumbling buzz’: Carolyn Morningstar explores creative uncertainty in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.” The English Review February 2007: 21+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. April 16, 2011.Semansky, Chris. “An Overview of Why I Couldn't Stop for Death.” Poetry for students. Detroit: Gale. Literary resources from Gale. Network. April 9, 2011.Zarlengo, Kristina. "Critical Essay on 'I Heard the Buzz of a Fly - When I Died -'." Poetry for students. Mary K. Ruby. vol. 5. Detroit: Gale Group, 1999. Literary resources from Gale. Network. April 10. 2011.