Just His Sigh -- Accented --.

             Had been legible -- to Me --.

             And was He Confident until.

             Ill fluttered out -- in Everlasting Well --.

             And if He spoke -- What name was Best --.

             What last.

             What One broke off with.

             At the Drowsiest --.

             Was He afraid -- or tranquil --.

             Might He know.

             How Conscious Consiousness -- could grow --.

             Till Love that was -- and Love too best to be --.

             Meet -- and the Junction be Eternity.

             expresses her belief about the experience of dying and her wonderment of what happens during death. Dickinson suggests that the dying person's final gaze will be on paradise as if at the point of death it sees what is to come. Dickinson herself wants, "to know just how he suffered. To know if any Human eyes were near. To know if He was patient." many questions like these are raised as to the experiences of the dying. She probes at the implications of leaving the living, searching for the strength of deaths appeal, and wondering abou the junction of love that existed during life and love that is to be, after life. Questions are raised about the person's attachments to the world already known rather than insights into another world after death. The impossibility of Dickinson to fully penetrate the mysteries of the afterlife does not allow for insight into this other world. Since she could not follow the dead beyond her world Dickinson focused on their effect on the world they left behind. She searched for answers from the dead as they lay in their resting-places in Safe in their Alabaster Chambers.

             Safe in their Alabaster Chambers --.

             Untouched my Morning.

             And untouched by Noon --.

             Sleep the meek members of the Resurrection --.

             Rafter of satin,.

             And Roof of stone.

             Light laughs the breeze.

             In her Castle above them --.

             Babbles the Bee in a stolid Ear,.

             Pipe the Sweet Birds in ignorant cadence --.

             Ah, what sagacity perished here!.

             The Alabaster chamber, "untouched by morning and untouched by noon, " represents the tomb of the dead and their separation from the world.