Emily Dickinson was an 18th-century Gothic writer. Dickinson used her fascination with death in much of her writing. His interest in death is often criticized for being morbid, but today he seems sensitive and imaginative. Dickinson grew up around death, which affected her greatly. His seclusion may have contributed to the meaning of his poetry. Isolation from society helped Emily Dickinson's style evolve into a recognizable style. This isolation “gave him the opportunity to explore his mind” (Daniels 2). The deaths of her mother and father greatly devastated her and influenced her poetry even more. Many of his poems mentioned God and religion in an unconventional way. Dickinson's writings were influenced by the King James Version of the Bible (Diyanni, Robert 168). In “Not Any Higher Stands the Grave,” Dickinson uses the image of a grave and the distance between all graves and the heavens as a metaphor for man's relationship with the creator. In “Because I Couldn't Stop to Die,” Dickinson personifies death as a gentle deer...