Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could not Stop For Death" "Write a poetry response, noting the imagery and language of the text
Emily Dickinson- Because I could not stop for Death
This tranquil and nostalgic poem has a slight eerie feeling to it and shows how the writer of the poem is so accepting of death. Many parts of this poem include references to Dickinson's theory concerning the circle, and how everything that goes on, is in the centre of the circle, and we are merely on the edge, watching what goes on. We can see how …
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…dashes that were so often seen after almost every line illustrate the idea of incompleteness; the woman has been moved through life so quickly in her carriage with death that she hadn't had time to finish explaining everything.
This quaint and serene poem shows a woman's journey with death through her life, along with the woman's feeling's of acceptance and constant sense of moving on, as if to put all of life's troubles behind her.
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