Poem Analysis: Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson
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13 February, 2017 Poem Essay Emily Dickinson of Amherst, Massachusetts has become one of America's greatest poets. Her unique writing style is iconic in the world of poetry. No one can quite capture her unique writing skills. But, out of the 1,775 poems she wrote only some were published before her death in 1886. After her death her sister, Lavinia, found all of her poems and published them into book called, "The poems of Emily Dickinson". Among these poems she found was, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death". And in the particular poem, Dickinson uses personification, symbolism, and metaphors to explain her journey to accepting death. Dickinson uses personification to show that death is like a person in the poem. "Because I could not stop for death" conveys personification because it says that death waits for her. Another example is "He kindly stopped for me." This is another example of personification because death cannot stop for someone. In addition the phrase in line 8, "For his civility" conveys death using manners, which in reality is impossible …show more content…
The journey to death is shown in lines 3 and 4, "The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality".The lines illustrate the final passage to death. Without using the words like or as, Dickinson still can compare the methods of transportation from the past to present.She compares a carriage to a present day hearse. Dickinson is also able to compare is a home and a final resting place. She does this by using a phrase from lines 17 and 18: "We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground". This compare a house, a place where you sleep, to your final resting place, the final place you go to sleep. This is how Dickinson uses metaphors in the poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for
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13 February, 2017 Poem Essay Emily Dickinson of Amherst, Massachusetts has become one of America's greatest poets. Her unique writing style is iconic in the world of poetry. No one can quite capture her unique writing skills. But, out of the 1,775 poems she wrote only some were published before her death in 1886. After her death her sister, Lavinia, found all of her poems and published them into book called, "The poems of Emily Dickinson". Among these poems she found was, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death". And in the particular poem, Dickinson uses personification, symbolism, and metaphors to explain her journey to accepting death. Dickinson uses personification to show that death is like a person in the poem. "Because I could not stop for death" conveys personification because it says that death waits for her. Another example is "He kindly stopped for me." This is another example of personification because death cannot stop for someone. In addition the phrase in line 8, "For his civility" conveys death using manners, which in reality is impossible …show more content…
The journey to death is shown in lines 3 and 4, "The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality".The lines illustrate the final passage to death. Without using the words like or as, Dickinson still can compare the methods of transportation from the past to present.She compares a carriage to a present day hearse. Dickinson is also able to compare is a home and a final resting place. She does this by using a phrase from lines 17 and 18: "We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground". This compare a house, a place where you sleep, to your final resting place, the final place you go to sleep. This is how Dickinson uses metaphors in the poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for