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She wrote about near 600 poems on death. Her attitude towards immortality was contradictory. It is clear that for Dickinson life and consciousness are inseparable. To be transmuted into grass or transcendentally made one with the ocean or the over-soul are as irrelevant and meaning to this individualist as the idea would have been to her puritan ancestors. On Death She thought that poetry should be powerful and touching. The inspiration of the poet came from his inner world or intensity of his emotions and the past literary traditions and the noble heroes. Like Emerson, she thought that only t