Literature

Literature

Introduction

This paper intends to explore the two poems and analyse them. The first one is “Because I could not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickson and the second one is “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns. The main focus of this paper is to get enlightened with the deep emotions hidden in the poems. It is to examine and uncover the elements of human nature and this life. Thus, each symbol of the poems is observed carefully.

Discussion

The analysis of the two poems, “Because I could not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickson and the second one is “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns, is detailed in the paragraphs to come.

Because I could not stop for Death

This poem is written by Emily Dickson. She considered herself as a pagan. Dickinson was a religious poet more than formal one, but her thematic sense of religion lied not in her assurance, but in her continual questioning of God, in her attempt to define his nature and that of his world. From an early age, Emily was disturbed by the "growing threat" of death, especially that of her family. When Sophia Holland, her close friend and her second cousin, caught typhus and died in April 1844, Emily was traumatized.

Symbol Analysis

In this poem Dickson has describes death in an amusingly fresh way by giving it a character. Death has been termed in this poem as an extended metaphor to analyse that how a real death may feel like. Further, Dickson has used the metaphor of a carriage where speaker and the death are riding, which refers to the journey we make till death. In addition to this, she has used one of the most common symbols of sunset to refer death. Along with others, she has used the metaphor of 'the house' that depicts the final and last resting place of the speaker. It symbolizes for grave (Miers, 1998). The reason she chose house as a metaphor for graven because she wanted to illustrate the calmness and comfort level of the speaker. Further, she also mentioned of horses heads in the last stanza, however it is not very evident as to what really Dickinson meant by the metaphor horses' heads, but maybe she could visualize the head of the horse with life that is now coming to an end.

Form

The quatrains in Emily Dickson's poem are not rhymed perfectly; however, they follow ...