This World is not Conclusion – Interesting Literature

A Short Analysis of Emily Dickinson’s ‘This World is not Conclusion’

By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)

‘This World is not Conclusion’ is poem number 501 in Emily Dickinson’s Complete Poems. According to the best editorial guess, the poem was written in around 1862. ‘This World is not Conclusion’ sees Emily Dickinson exploring and analysing our attitudes to death and what awaits us beyond.