Comparing Blake's "Lamb" to Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz"

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A 4 page essay that contrasts and compares these 2 poems. While William Blake, the eighteenth century British poet, and Emily Dickinson, the nineteenth century American poet, obliquely address the topic of the afterlife in their poems "The Lamb" and "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—," the perspectives of these two great poets are diametrically opposed. As this suggests these poems are very different. They differ not only in regards to each poet's preference in regards to style, format, rhyme, rhythm, imagery, etc., but they also differ profoundly in the way in which these poets present their religious orientation. This paper is outlined in khcbadp1.rtf. No additional sources cited.