‘I Like Look of Agony’ is one of the typical poems of Emily Dickinson focusing on the theme of death – as an inevitable truth in the life. Dickinson personifies Death and presents it as an Agony, and as it is an ultimate truth concluding the course of the life, encourages readers to face it with normalcy.
Of course, the fear and hopelessness is always associated with the death, but Dickinson encourages to the strugglers of the death convincing that the death is the truth and the honest, that in welcoming when nobody can pretend or simulate. It is the ultimate stage where one cannot pretend and control over the feelings. ‘I Like a Look of Agony’ is one more poem of Emily Dickinson which exhibits her typical searching for something to admire even in the matters of fear. In the poem, Dickinson’s approach towards death is quite positive because to her, it is most trustworthy truth. Naturally, the words like ‘convulsion’, ‘a There’, ‘Beads upon the Forehead’ indicate the general fear and pain in approaching the death; but the truthfulness in death is more appealing to her than the fear and pain.
In a small poem of two stanzas, Emily Dickinson, using the tool of personification shows her outstanding psychological insight and uncommon power of observation. As in many other poems, in the present poem, too, Dickinson glorifies the truthfulness of the death, and despite it is an experience fall of agony. She adores it lot.
