One line from this poem that describes the belief in the afterlife in the line of meeting again is the line: "I think we will surely meet again" ( 17 -18). Walt Whitman says this after the soldier's death and believes that he and his companion will meet again in death because he believes that death is not the end of eternal life. Walt Whitman also writes about death more realistically than Emily Dickinson, although his interpretation of death is impersonal as it is the soldier's death and he does not imagine his own death like Emily Dickinson. He describes death as mourning the death of someone else. He also seems to regret that pain of death with the phrase: "But not a tear fell, not even a long sigh, long, long, I looked" (11). He is used to dying from war. Walt Whitman's next poem that shows aspects of death is A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and