Metaphors In Emily Dickinson's Funeral

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Dickinson uses the metaphor of the house to a coffin, to show that death has brought the speaker to their final resting place; the entire carriage ride was a funeral procession. The only part of the house is the visible swelling, the coffin, before it is buried into the ground. By having the cornice of the roof visible, it suggests that the coffin is being lowered into the ground gradually, or that it is already there. Seeing as how Dickinson spent all her time in her home or out in nature, it is more likely that Dickinson understood her own house would indubitably end up as her coffin. Dickinson is mostly certain that her life is not the end of her eternity. In the final stanza, the speaker is looking back on the day of their death, when the