Because I Could Not Stop For Death Essay

"I first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity."(Dickinson) In this poem a girl goes on a carriage ride with death and immortality. This carriage ride is very slow and the girl has to gives up a lot for death, almost like he is her family. When she is on this carriage ride she passes many sites that she was too busy to see before. Then death and her stop at a house which looks similar to a grave. Then she dies into eternity. This poem begins with a carriage ride, through many scenes, and ends at the house which becomes her barrel ground. In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson, the main character is affected by the setting because she has to give up so much for this carriage ride, but then she gets an abundant amount out of it when she sees the many sites, and then in the end when she realizes her journey is over, she is sad to leave the world, but happy that she is going to eternity.
The first way the setting affects the character on this carriage ride is because she is riding on a carriage ride with death and immortality. She has to give up her "labors and leisure" (Dickinson) just for death. Not only is this fact ironic but also the fact that she is enjoying death's company. She is so busy that she
In the poem it is said to be a house, but it is described more like a grave, and with the theme of the poem is death so it is portrayed as a grave. "We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground; the roof was scarcely visible, the cornice but a mound."(Dickinson) When the speaker gets to this house, she knows that it time for her death. In the last stanza she talks about how the horses head is pointed towards eternity, and how this is the end. The speaker is of course sad that this is the end of her life, but happy that she had to the opportunity to go on this carriage ride, and see her life