艾米丽·狄金森,美国文学史上最杰出的诗人之一,被称为拥抱死亡的诗人,她一生中创作近1800首诗作,其中与死亡主题有关的诗歌约占三分之一。对于死亡主题的幽深探索,使诗人的笔下幻化出各种不同的死神形象。探讨这些形象,便可窥得诗人对死亡的思考和态度。本文整理和选取诗人在诗中所描绘的死神形象加以介绍,进而领略诗人死亡诗作的奇丽以及理解诗人超凡的死亡观。 Emily Dickinson, one of the most prominent poets in the history of American literature, is known as the poet embracing death and has written nearly 1,800 poems throughout her life, of which about one third are poems related to the theme of death. Deep exploration of the theme of death, the poet’s writings turned out a variety of different images of death. Explore these images, we can see the poet’s thinking and attitude toward death. This article collate and select the images of the death depicted by the poet in the poem and then enjoy the miracles of the poet’s death poems and understand the poet’s extraordinary death concept.