Emily Dickinson is an assertive and determined poet whose retirement is a stance of attack, whose timidity is aggressive. In dealing with the questions of belief, her poetry leaves an impression of defiance rather than detachment and her denial of heaven and exploration of self suggest a modern existential point of view. Refusing the world of heaven in the light of that of self, she turns to the world of self and endeavors to explore the identity of self, but only to find its final destination is despair. With her poetic perception, she embarks on the private pilgrimage of an isolated soul to immortality and tries to grasp eternity from death`s bold exhibition. Having brought the soul at death to the brink of the incomprehensible, she remains poised at the boundary between the two worlds, continually attempting to define each in terms of the other. In this sense, she is the poet in whom modern consciousness become fully and lucidly conscious and articulate in poetry, in a coherent way of continuing exploration of human predicament.