EMILY DICKENSON

Emily Dickenson



Emily Dickenson

Introduction

Poems of Emily Dickinson "Because I could not stop for death," recognize the death of an undeniable phenomenon of life (Shawn, 2000). Much of the work of Dickinson was interested in mortality, and in these three poems, his interest in the exploration of death are evident. Her curiosity led to the question of what happens after death. Are you going to heaven, nothing, or for a new life?

Discussion and Analysis

The book is one of the most well renowned verses of Emily Dickinson. Death in this poem is translated as the last trip of the woman walked into eternity. This poem helps to characterize and relate to death in a more personal level. Dickinson makes death seem passive and easy, which is different from most views of death being brutal and cruel. The theme of the poem is that death is natural and unstoppable for everybody, but at the same time giving comfort that is not the ultimate goal of the journey of the soul. The poem begins to give the publication reader a sense of ahead undertaking along the second stanza and the third (Martha, 1924).

In line 5, Dickinson begins slow journey of death can be seen as she writes, "It took us little by little, he knew no rush." The third stanza seems to speed up the trinity of death, immortality, and he happens to children playing, the grain fields, and sunset. The poem seems to come faster than the life running through his course, but in lines 17 and 18, however, the poem seems to slow as Dickinson wrote: "We blocked at a house that seemed / A bump of the earth."

In other verses shows a lack of belief in heaven or any other form of afterlife. In this poem, a woman lies in bed ...