The grieving process will be different for each individual, the emotions felt during this period can range from hate to love. “Funeral Blues” by WH Auden describes the day of someone mourning a loved one and experiencing feelings such as rejection and depression. “Why I Couldn't Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson instead describes the events someone experiences when accepting death. There are many similarities between these writings, such as the poet's use of metaphors, imagery, tone, and structure. Although these two poems express death in opposite ways, they have a common theme that states that death is a part of life. Both of these poems express the different ways people deal with death; Auden's poetry describes dark emotions while Dickinson's tone suggests understanding and acceptance of death. The use of metaphors is present in each of these poems. In “Funeral Blues” Auden uses metaphors to allow readers to understand the pain of the speaker. In the first stanza the speaker begins by making requests such as "stop all the clocks and cut off the telephone" (1) this may be a metaphor for the speaker's desire for silence and isolation. And again in the second and third lines of the same stanza the speaker says that she does not want the barking of the dogs or the sound of the piano to be heard, anything that could disturb her thoughts that she wants to silence (2-3). Dickinson also uses metaphors throughout her poetry, the main one being death. He writes as if death were a man. In the first line he states “Since I could not stop for death, He graciously stopped for me” (1-2), which means he decided to meet Him. In the second verse he writes "We drove slowly, he knew no hurry" (5) from this...half of the paper...your lines each. Each line ends with a vertical line marking the feet. The rhyme is not, but in this poem there is a rhyme like "Me" that rhymes with "Immortality" and, further down the poem, with "Civilization" and "Eternity." This poem repeats the phrase “We got through,” which is changed slightly in the fifth stanza to “We took a break.” This repetition of a word or phrase throughout a poem is called anaphora. Using these poetic elements allows the words to flow as they describe an event. In conclusion, I found that both of these poems use similar poetic elements to describe different feelings and attitudes towards death. Auden's use of metaphors shows the pain and emotional sadness one might feel after losing a loved one and Dickinson uses metaphors to describe death as a gentleman and show how one might learn to accept it even if in the end it will happen to all of us..