tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post8263516015544731875..comments2024-03-29T00:07:13.458-07:00Comments on the prowling Bee: Wolfe demanded during dyingSusan Kornfeldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05384011972647144453noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4029797379711350813.post-48877055975152102322023-10-11T15:46:13.509-07:002023-10-11T15:46:13.509-07:00Given ED’s infatuation with death and the content ...Given ED’s infatuation with death and the content of this poem, she no doubt thought about what she would say when her dying time came, probably planned her death words as carefully as she planned her funeral. Unlike Wolfe and Montcalm, however, she was unconscious when she died. <br /><br />A week before she died [May 15, 1886] she wrote her last letter, to her cousins Francis and Louise Norcross:<br /><br />“Little Cousins,<br /> Called back.<br /> Emily”<br /><br />Reportedly, her last words were in a note to her niece, Martha Dickinson (Mattie) [Bianchi] (1866-1943), "I must go in, the fog is rising."<br /><br />( https://poets.org/text/famous-last-words )<br /><br />ED choreographed her funeral carefully:<br /><br />“The honorary pallbearers, among them the president and professors of Amherst College, set the casket down after exiting the Homestead’s back door, and their burden was shouldered, at the poet’s own request, by six Irish workmen who had been hired men on the Dickinson grounds.<br /><br />“Following her late directions, they circled her flower garden, walked through the great barn that stood behind the house, and took a grassy path across house lots and fields of buttercups to West Cemetery [500 yards from Homestead], followed by the friends who had attended the simple service. There Emily Dickinson was interred in a grave Sue had lined with evergreen boughs, within the family plot enclosed by an iron fence.”<br /><br />( https://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/emily-dickinson/biography/special-topics/emily-dickinson-and-death/ )<br />Larry Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02810899482852120751noreply@blogger.com