Death

Death to me is a release from your physical body.  I think that when you die you either go to heaven or hell depending on the choices that you have made in your life.  If you do end up going to heaven I think that you can watch over the people that you love just like Thornton Wilder said in Our Town.  In I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died Emily Dickinson said that you will be alone in your room when you die.  In the poem the only thing that she heard when she died was a fly which was the only thing she had since her family already left her.  When you think of a fly you think that it is a horrible disgusting thing which death also is.  The next poem that we read was The Dead by Billy Collins.  In his poem he was saying that the dead don't want you to see them because when you "see" them you are by yourself mourning for them.  They want you not to hold on to the connection between you and him but to let go of it because you are grieving.  I agree with this because if you were dead you wouldn't want people thinking about the past and grieving over you even if it was 10 years ago and they still haven't let go.  The last poem we read was Chicken Salad by Mark Halliday.  In his article he said that he would get his dad something to eat to be his last meal that would bring him pleasure.  This is what they do in prison before somebody dies so that they have their final meal.  This final meal will probably be their favorite meal which will give them pleasure.  But, in chicken salad his dad didn't want the chicken salad because he was already gone.  His dad was on the verge of life and death which is why he didn't want his favorite treat.  These were the three poems that we read in class and they all relate to act 3 in Our Town which is all about death.  Even though they are all similar they all have their own message to take from them.