Hello people=) I just did a little analysis sort of. Well i do kinda talk about death, but really i tried to avoid as much as possible (after today's incident!) Well, hope this helps!
Some random bit-Dickinson's poem is an allegorical death fantasy and resembles Keat's Ode on a Grecian Urn, however the matter of presentation is completely her own style. Dickinson incorporates a sense of macabre physicality of death, high idealism of martyrdom and a yearning fot Platonic companionship. This poem conveys both notions of alienation and belonging.
Alienation:
The poem conveys the persona's yearning to belong through the persona seeking companionship but this gives way to the moss that creeps up the speaker's corpse as seen in "Until the moss had reached our lips, & covered up our names". Here, the moss obliterates the persona's capacity to speak who ultimately losses their identity through the symbolic verbatim "Covered up our names". The sounds of the poem with the alliteration of "f" sounds in "softly why I failed" and the "m" and "n" sounds of the last stanza create a calm an soothing atmosphere, which helps relieve the sad suggestion that in time their stand for truth and beauty, and they themselves will be forgotten.
Belonging:
The proximity of the headstones show that the two speakers belong together. This is further supporte by the change in use of personal pronoun "I" to "we" as the poem progresses conveys that the persona belongs as seen in "We brethren are" where truth and beauty are personified as brothers. Furthermore, alhtough both beauty and truth symbolically lose their identity evident through "covered up our names" they belong together as they both lose identity together and therefore belongign transcends death.
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