Two of Three...

"Behind me - dips Eternity"
This poem was rather difficult to "unpack."
Dickinson's speaker reflects upon what death is, rather than be experiencing it as in her other poems. The speaker, a female most likely, is thinking about what it really could be, and feeling herself just a small blip in the pathways of life. She reflects upon what others have said, " 'tis Kingdoms - afterward- they say." Using the phrase "they say" gives the reader the feeling that the speaker hold a good bit of doubt towards the 'Kingdom'. When the speaker goes on to say  the lines "pausless Monarchy," and "dateless Dynasty," she gives an idea that humans cannot really understand, and something that especially as 'kingless' thinkers may not find to be agreeable. Dickinson also refers to Christ in the lines "Son of None," and "Duplicate Divine" in that Jesus was the son of no man, but rather a divine entity, and that Jesus and God are thought to be the same, and rule as one. At the end of the poem "Maelstrom - in the Sky" shows that the speaker feels confused about death, and what it really is. In this poem I feel that there is confusion about what it really is, the speaker feel small and unimportant to the flow of time, and the entity that is death, and the speaker feels doubt for what everyone else believes the afterlife to be.