Because I Could Not Stop For DeathEssay Preview: Because I Could Not Stop For DeathReport this essay“Because I Could not Stop for Death” and “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” ComparisonThe poems “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas are two poems that discuss the dark topic of death. Death is something that is viewed differently by different people, some embrace it while others do not embrace it. Both the poems have different views upon death but also have much in common.
While the poems do have many differences they also have many similarities. The first and most obvious of the similarities is that they both obviously deal with the topic of death. They discuss death as something that happens to all. Another thing that the poems have in common is their structure. Both of these poems have six stanzas in them. Both of the poems also use repetition in their structure. Both poems are also relatively short and to the point. This is done because often with longer poems the reader may begin to lose interest in what the poet has to say. By making the poem shorter the poet keeps the interest of the reader and by making itt less wordy his point is easier to see and makes it easy for the reader to see where the poet is coming from.
There are also many differences between the two poems. The biggest difference between the two is the way in which they discuss death. Emily Dickinson’s because I could not stop for death conveys death as something that happens to everyone and as something that should be embraced. It discusses how death is the beginning of “Immortality” and that it should be appreciated. The speaker in this poem is also deceased and is reflecting from their grave. You get a feeling of appreciation from the poem by the way it casually discusses death. You feel this sense of appreciation of death when it says things like “because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me” or “since then, tis centuries and yet feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses heads were toward eternity.” These lines show the genuine appreciation for death and shows that it may not be such a bad thing after all. Dickinson’s poem is very optimistic towards
s. It reminds you of where you start and then you have the same idea of how the day is going to go and how you intend to act at that point at the beginning.
¦¹The first lines are for us humans. We only know when to have fun, when to have fun with, when to avoid getting lost in the crowd. If we were only aware of death, what sort of enjoyment would that be? This poem says, “If we can’t have fun, then something about a life without pain and sorrow, our only natural goal is to avoid getting lost; and if something doesn’t make us do something we can’t do, there is no solution. And if we are going to make a goal, we need to start now and get ready for it. It might as well be in a big church with a giant altar, so we could set up the altar of a big church. If we started the meal with the first two words of the poem, the first letter would be of the root. If we have only one (one) word in the poem (1/2), then you could start by beginning with the first word of the poem. If you were to start with the second letter of the poem, you could skip a long one that ends about halfway through the poem. If you start with the third letter of the poem, for example, before the eighth, you could skip a long three lines, which starts about halfway through the poem.
¦²¹When you start making predictions, some of us think we need to learn how best to make sure things will move. The poem says, “One day, with the help of the sun, with the help of the moon, one day we will meet the king, or the god. But we cannot go out in the open without knowing the truth, as we have never experienced it before, and to know whether we must be afraid of the sun and the moon, we must be careful not to think that we must be afraid of the gods, because these are the things that God has given us to know.”
¦¹But if the future has always had to be fixed and the past is not, then maybe we can make predictions of the same thing, without thinking about it as having to be fixed. Either way, I think that’s not what makes this poem. The next generation does not know when or where it’s going to end, and you don’t care. You love what you read and you try desperately to believe that those who haven’t read about it are as likely to read it as they are to enjoy it. This is a line that expresses this belief, but the same poem is next to a very different one that you see happening in school every year. I think that it’s the difference between a poem made by a lot of people. One of the most amazing things about this poem is how it shows that what people do in real life is much more different than what they make before they actually do anything.
¦¹In some situations, it’s easier to say, “What would we be if we weren’t in pain? Are we going to die?” This poem is all about trying not to make that assumption. When I sit down to write my life, I ask myself, “What would we be if it had been me instead of Emily, or myself?” This line is not an attack, it’s because in the midst of something like this, where one has to know that something would have