Friends and Family Dealing With Term Paper

Dickson had to deal with a few close relationships end in death, including that of her father, (Crumbley, 2000). Due to her nature of solitude, a death hit Dickenson hard. In her writing she tends to obsess over the act of dying. Much of her poetry features a first person narrator speaking about the actual experience of dying, "I hear a Fly buzz - when I died," (Dickson, 111). The grief she feels from the death of a loved one in a very personal way, so much so that she envisions experiencing her own death over and over again in several of her poems. She internalizes the grief of death into an obsession with the act of dying, "And then the Windows failed - and then / I could not see to see," (112).

William Shakespeare presents a King who had his Queen killed, and the devastating affects of overzealousness and jealousy combined. King Leontes overcomes to his insecurities regarding the faithfulness of his wife, and later has her condemned to death for her supposed disloyalty, "my wife's a hobbyhorse," (Shakespeare 15). However, once Hermione died, Leontes was struck with an heirless and lonely empire.He regretted the murderous over assumption, a complete turn around from his initial pride, "The wrong I did myself, which was so much / That heirless it hath made my kingdom and / Destroyed the sweetest companion that e're man / Bred his hopes out of," (96). Leontes' redemption is so great, that Shakespeare rewards him with Hermione's return at the end of the play.

These works show the variety of literary characters coping methods for dealing with the loss of a loved one. It is a twisted emotion, which many times cause the characters to internalize in a seemingly unhealthy way. Therefore we have strange reactions and inner neurosis blanket the pages of classic literature.

Works Cited

Crumbley, Paul. "Emily Dickinson's Life." 25 Apr. 2008. Modern American Poetry. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/dickinson/bio.htm

Dickinson, Emily. Final Harvest. Back Bay Books. 1997.

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying. Vintage International. 1990.

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