Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson

The poems “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died” by Emily Dickinson both describe death and a journey one takes to get there. In “Because I could not stop for Death” the speaker tells of someones journey of death that did not see it coming and had no time to slow down to notice it. While in the poem “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died” the speaker describes ones journey to death that aware it is coming, someone who is prepared and waiting for it to happen. Death can arrive in many different forms, it is different for everyone and nobody knows or can predict accurately when or how it will come no matter how prepared or not prepared someone is.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Her family was a little famous around Amherst due to her grandfather: Samuel Dickinson, who founded the local Amherst College. Her state legislator father had three children; Lavinia Norcross, William Austin and Emily as the middle child. Emily’s education included 7 years of learning at Amherst Academy (College) and 1 year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. It is still not known to this day why Emily left Mount Holyoke after only one year in 1848.

On December 30, 1830, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, was born in Amherst, Massachusetts (Tredell et. al.). Emily Dickinson’s parents, Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross, got married in 1828 and one year later they had their first child, a son (“Emily Dickinson Biography”). Emily Dickinson was a middle child with one older brother, Austin, and a younger sister, Lavinia (Tredell et. al.).

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in December 10, 1830 she was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily was a very successful, famous and important American poet in the 19th century. She attended Amherst Academy in her youth life, after seven years she temporarily attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Once there, she secretly created a lot of poetry and wrote hundreds of letters. Dickinson was a creative reserved poet; fewer than a dozen of her approximately 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime.

“Because I Could Not Stop For Death” by Emily Dickinson is a poem about death being personified in an odd and imaginative way. The poet has a personal encounter with Death, who is male and drives a horse-carriage. They go on a mysterious journey through time and from life to death to an afterlife. The poem begins with its first line being the title, but Emily Dickinson’s poems were written without a title and only numbered when published, after she died in 1886.

The theme of the of is that death need not be feared and in this poem the speaker shows how death is a part of life, and how death really is not as scary as it seems. The speaker in the poem “Because i could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson personifies death as a gentlemen to make death seem less scary. The speaker states “Because I could not stop for death--He kindly stopped for me…” (568). Death normally cannot stop to let a person inside a carriage.

When Dickinson was young she thought of death as a kind, peaceful gentleman. She elaborates on this idea in her poem “Because I could not Stop for Death”, “Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me/ We slowly drove - He knew no haste,” Emily Dickinson uses the personification of Death in a way that bears resemblance to a classy, peaceful gentleman who is willing to slowly guide and patiently wait for a lady. Her wording also gives the connotation that she is young and in love with this gentle Death. This idea abruptly turns into hatred when she loses her parents.

Manoel Chris Kenia Emily Dickinson was a reclusive, nineteenth century American poet. In seclusion she many short poems about ideas such as pain, death, grief, love, and truth. Her poems “Because I could not stop for death” and “Tell the truth but tell it slant” had similarities and differences in their themes, symbolic meanings and figurative language. Both poem had different themes. “Because I could not stop for death” had a theme of mortality as Dickinson paints a picture of the day of her death and it's all about the speaker's attitude toward her death.

Emily Dickinson had only seven of her poems published while she was alive. Although she was not recognized as a true American poet during her time, she became a widely known and impactful writer and she still stands as an awe-inspiring poet whose work shall always remain timeless. Emily Dickinson was born in Massachusetts in 1830. She went to school at Mount but Holyoke Female Seminary but returned home after a year of being there. She lived within the Romantic Era.

Emily Dickinson was born in 1830, in Amherst Massachusetts. She grew up in a prominent and prosperous family, with an older brother Austin and a younger sister Lavinia. She had a quiet and reserved family life, her father was Edward Dickinson, and her mother was Emily nor cross Dickinson, her mother wasn't much of a powerful presence in her life, and Dickinson said she wasn't as emotionally accessible as she would have liked her to be. Both of her parents raised her to be a cultured Christian woman. Her father attempted to protect her from reading books that might “joggle” her mind, and particularly her religious faith, but Dickinson's individualistic instincts and irreverent sensibilities created conflicts that did not allow her to fall into

In “Because I Could Not Stop For Death”, Emily Dickinson uses imagery and symbols to establish the cycle of life and uses examples to establish the inevitability of death. This poem describes the speaker’s journey to the afterlife with death. Dickinson uses distinct images, such as a sunset, the horses’ heads, and the carriage ride to establish the cycle of life after death. Dickinson artfully uses symbols such as a child, a field of grain, and a sunset to establish the cycle of life and its different stages. Dickinson utilizes the example of the busyness of the speaker and the death of the sun to establish the inevitability of death.

“Because I could not stop for death”, Emily Dickinson. Considered to be one of the most immense poems to be authored in America at the time of being produced; back in 1863. The poem has also been printed under the name of “The Chariot”. Emily discloses the adventure of how she was busily bustling around her day, when a somewhat polite gentleman, named death, arrives in his carriage and offers her a ride. In the carriage along with Emily and death, there is a third man; completely silent.

“Dwell in possibility” by Emily Dickinson is familiar to us through her poem which focuses on the importance of poetry over prose. Emily dickinson’s composition of words provides a comparison between poetry and prose to better persuade the reader to agree with her stance on the topic. In the poem, she describes the poetry to be more free and open, whereas, prose to be more limited and closed. She portrayed poetry as a script of possibilities where new different styles and techniques can be implemented; her usage of complex similes and metaphors further elaborated the poetry’s characterstics of unlimited freedom. The quote spreads the message of hope and optimism to anyone who puts faith in the future and its possibilities.

Death of Grandparents Emily Dickinson wrote a poem called “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died” (rpt. In Greg Johnson and Thomas R. Arp, Perrine’s Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense, 12th ed. [Boston: Wadsworth, 2015] 882) reminds me of how everything felt when my grandparents passed away. This poem brings so many memories of these days.

Emily Dickinson lived during a time when many would become very well acquainted with death. As such it would become a specter that was feared as it could make an appearance at any time. So looking at Dickinson 's work it seems rather interesting that taken as a collection there seems to be the tale of one character that comes to view death in a multitude of different ways throughout their life. First is the feared figure that leaves them restless, then death comes as something numbing but leaves the living to celebrate the life of the one that has passed, life as a story that is completed and finished upon death, and finally coming to see death as kind figure that takes one to a new home. this finally view is what paints death as something that is not to be feared but rather as something natural, it is the next