It was not Death, for I stood upStyle analysis of Dickensons poem

In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “It was not Death, for I stood up,” she recreates a state of hopelessness, a devastating depression that cannot be put into words. The speaker has just lost a loved one and is emotionally devastated. She is attempting to define or understand her own condition, to know the true cause of her suffering.
The speaker knows she can't be dead, because she is standing up; the blackness engulfing her isn't night, because the noontime bells are ringing; nor is the chill she feels physical cold, because she feels the warm winds as well. She can taste all of these feelings as though they have all merged. The funeral makes her think about her own state, she feels dead. Her life becomes, “shaven,” the only emotions left to feel are sorrow and despair. She feels like a shell of a person. She is overwhelmed and feels like she is suffocating. Totally isolated, and as if time had stop...