Emily Dickinson I

Poem # 449
Likes: I really liked how she portrayed death as a small thing, unlike many people who think its very grim. I also liked the imagery about the two people talking. Just trying to imaging two deceased individuals having a conversation in the tomb is very amusing and takes the mind away from the motif of death. Line 10, "We talked between the Room --" made me think of people talking through the walls or on the phone while sitting in different rooms.
Dislikes: The dashes really got on my nerves. I know they emphasized the words and her consciousness but they were annoying. Was it really necessary to include this many dashes? I didn't really like that the poem was so short. I want to no more about how they died from "beauty" and "truth." It also kind of bothered me that even though the poem seemed to be pleasant at first, she seemed to end it on a harsh note by saying, "We talked between the Room--/Until the Moss had reached our lips--." It reminded me that even though she was having fun with death, death is still a grim issue.
Puzzles: When she says, "Themselves are One" in line 7 referencing beauty and truth. I think she was saying that beauty and truth were one in the same, when really they aren't at all, so I was confused there. Why end the poem on a sour note? I know the subject is about death, but you could at least keep going with the positive images.
Connections and Motifs: One of the obvious motifs is death. She shows death as a conversational, calm event in someones life. Another motif I can see is that of a bond between friends. The way they talked to each other and then  it says in line 8, "We Brethren, are" shows that because they died from the "same things" that they are connected in some way.

Poem # 519
Likes: I like Emily Dickenson's simile in line 3, "A Chill -- like frost upon a Glass--." It's easy to figure out and relate to because almost everyone knows about the condensation on a cup. I also liked how descriptive she ways to describe the other events about how fast the cold spread and the "busy eyes."
Dislikes: I dislike some of this poem because I'm completely confused and have no idea what's truly going on. I mean i have a hunch, but I have no idea it I'm truly interpreting it right. This poem is kind of morbid to, I don't mind death, but this poem seems to take it a little too far by describing the "cold" and the "eyes."
Puzzles: What does the last stanza even mean? I just do not seem to understand how it fits in with the rest from the way I am interpreting this. Is she talking about the body? Its warm at first when alive, and then death comes and the body becomes cold slowly and then the eyes become stiff?
Connections and Motifs: This poem also deals with the motif of death. I believe she uses coldness to physically describe the coldness of a dead body.

Poem #712
Likes: This was my personal favorite poem. Because again of the light hearted way she describes death.The imagery of death picking her up, and her seeing a few stages of her life on the way to complete death kind of reminded me like "life flashing before your eyes" before you die. I also like her imagery, "we slowly drove" I think that this implies that the speaker had a slow death.
Dislikes: There wasn't much I dislike about this poem except the fourth stanza had me lost. I feel like Emily Dickinson went from describing one thing to a whole new subject.
Puzzles: It puzzles me why she goes into describing landscapes, that had me completely confused. Emily Dickinson puzzles me in general why she always writes about death. It leaves me wondering why she was so obsessed with death. Also I don't really understand the last two lines of the poems.
Connections and Motifs: Again, the most common motif in this poem is death. I also see kind of the motif of reflection. I feel like the speaker as she is riding in the carriage with death she is viewing her stages of life as a child while they're, "At Recess -- in the Ring--" and then as she grows older and they "Paused before a House that seemed/A Swelling of the Ground--"