Emily Dickinson's poetry can be seen as a study of deep fears and emotions, specifically in her exploration of death. In her famous poem #465 Dickinson explores the possibility of a life without the elaborate, finished ending that her religious upbringing promised her. She forces herself to question whether there is a possibility of death being a mundane nothingness. In this last moment of doubt in the appearance of the divine, the speaker in the poem …showed first 75 words of 1586 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1586 total…reflections from? Could she have been wrong? I feel that this is not the case. The poem is a lesson on grief, and on death. It speaks to the need for the individual to find their own meaning. It gives the reader an allowance for a doubt of the conventional. In the speaker's death the was no need for her to "see to see." The need for divine fell only with the people she left.