Kindly follow the outline below to get a better understanding of the Emily Dickinson's attitude to the death and immortality presented in the poems "Because I could not stop for Death" and 'I heard a Fly buzz- when I died"

• Dickinson explores death in each of the poems mentioned above, but she does it in a unique way. There is no doubt that there is a soul after death; this leaves a hopeful scope for the possibility of immortality and salvation in the first poem, while in the second poem, the dying speaker's final hope for the "King" is easily thwarted by the intervention of a fly in the deathbed scene depicted in the second poem. 
• The dying speaker is left with nothing except a helpless acceptance of their own death and the decay of their physical bodies. Despite the fact that Dickinson seems to have taken an anti-immortality position in this poem, this can only be seen as another example of her ambivalent feelings regarding this mystifying subject.

Step-by-step explanation

• It is a common topic in philosophy, religion, and literature: death vs. immortality. As far back as the beginning of time, great thinkers have been pondering this topic, yet no one has yet to come up with a conclusive solution. There are many different types of religion involved. 
• According to Buddhism, a beautiful afterlife through reincarnation is promised to those who follow its teachings, while Christianity assures its adherents of immortality and Heaven as long as they follow the words of God. Plato believes in an eternal soul and views death as merely the "separation of soul and body, which also serves as a prerequisite to attaining "the knowledge of true being." 
• But they are all only ideas, and ideas are subject to change and revision. Many great thinkers have been, are, and will continue to be fascinated by the mystery of death and immortality because of this very nature of the belief in immortality after death and the mystery of death itself.
• Because she was born into a Calvinist household, Dickinson would be tormented and disturbed by this subject throughout her life. In the two poems discussed above, her ambivalence regarding death and immortality is no better expressed. In the second poem, the more or less positive outlook on death and immortality in the first is shattered, and all that awaits the dying is a tragic loss of sight and the putrescence of their bodies. 
• It is true that in both of these poems, Emily Dickinson's attitude toward death and immortality does not reach an unwavering belief; rather, like many great thinking minds, she had always been believing and doubting throughout her entire life. This ambivalent spirit of Dickinson can also be found in many of her other poems on death and immortality. Death and immortality are still a mystery to us since Dickinson had been dead for almost a century; she may have discovered a solution, but she will never return to tell us; the unending conundrum is left to us—both believing and questioning spirits.