The poem I've seen a dying Eye by Emily Dickinson symbolize the eyesight of a dying
person, a person, who is about to leave,
yet before it happens she'll want to fill her eyes with each and every detail, every shadow or color just to take with her as many pictures and color as she can. It's focusing our attention on the very last minutes of life, the last look or rather the last memorizing of the world. Yet in the same time, it's also only an imagination of death brought by the author, based only on her assumptions and boundless fantasy. We are witnessing some sort of speculation, because the writter is not able to describe for us the reaction of a
person who is dying. That is the reason we are being drawn into the world of the imagination and fiction created for us by the author. Everybody have thought, multiple times, about this
moment in our life we're going to meet Death face-to-face. Everybody have tried to think of thoughts running through our mind in that very moment. The poem shows us the searching for shreds of memories, the remains of life in the moment when the only thing close to us is the inevitable end. The author compares those last seconds of life to a mist, which is gently covering our body, blurring our vision, rises us above all separating from reality. The lat verse brings to our attention to that thin line which separates life and death, not seen to a mere mortals. Our life, however, eventually comes to that moment when facing death as it's chosen one we're given the ability to see all the things previously hidden. The poem is kindo of balancing on the border line of life and death- it is fascinating but in the same time frightening. The Author shows us her imaginary vision of death from dying person's point of view, who's world is vanishing with every breath. Although this kind of cold aproach to such a touchy subject may be shocking, it makes the poem, however, (thanks to it's way of death's interpretation) very intriguing and unique. I think that Emily Dickinson in a subtile and sophiscitated matter shows us that, what we're even affraid to think about... She shows our last minutes or at least her vision of them