Analysis Of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"
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The poets of the nineteenth century wrote on a variety of topics.
One often used topic is that of death. The theme of death has been
approached in many different ways. Emily Dickinson is one of the numerous
poets who uses death as the subject of several of her poems. In her poem
"Because I Coul ....
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.... "I Could Not Stop for Death" gives the reader a
feeling of forward movement through the second and third quatrain. For
example, in line 5, Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward
movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove-He knew no
haste." The third quatrain seems to speed up as the trinity of death,
immortality, and the speaker pass the children playing, the fields of grain,
and the setting sun one after another. The poem seems to get faster and
faster as li ....
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Word count: 1954
Page count: 8 (approximately 250 words per page)
