Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are two great American poets from the nineteenth century. Both of these poets discuss different aspects of death in many of their poems. In Emily Dickinson’s I Heard a Fly Buzz death is boring and the speaker seems to think nothing of death. In her poem I Could Not Stop for Death she has death act in a nice way and says how death is a very long journey but feels short at the end. In her poem Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers the theme of death involves the idea that