Because I Could Not Stop for DeathEssay Preview: Because I Could Not Stop for DeathReport this essayBecause I Could Not Stop For DeathIn “Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, The speaker is talking about how she is immortal and cannot die. She experiences the knowledge of what it feels like to be alive. She yet goes on and on about her not being able to die due to her being some sort of an immortal being.
The first stanza is saying that the speaker could not bring her self at any means to die. She cannot die so she goes on a trip to see life. As she continues to say that she is immortal, the next stanza she is has put off all means of life behind. The next stanza the speaker goes on to see kids at recesses and “We passed the fields of grazing grain.” The next stanza contradicts what she has been talking a bout. She says that instead of her passing death she is passing it. It then turns out that its getting colder. She also talks about how her gown is her only “tulle.” The third stanza she passes a house that seams eerie to my taste. The final stanza states that it has been centuries since that day she had not stopped for death.
The speaker is not alone:
#8220 | the last stanza states that while her lover’s dead she is still living to a great degree. She says that she will not leave her lover in a coffin, although she is still alive and her spirit can be found throughout history. The final stanza states that the body will be found in the garden. And if this were to happen again every day (she has a hard time believing that she would always be around him), then the corpse would be moved to the river of blood or the grave if she would leave. After the final 2 paragraphs of the first stanza the speaker asks why she was never asked to sleep with him. The reason she had never been forced to sleep with the others is a logical one. And even this time it is a sad one given the circumstances of the event. The “time” that led to the death she has been telling that the “soul” is still alive despite the dead man she has had the longest rest, as her life time could not last longer. The “time” that led to his death she did not know if she would be allowed to return to this world, since she is still her only remaining half. So why are there so many people still clinging on to their hearts and hoping for a brighter world that might have finally come to be? The next three paragraphs of the first stanza are the first ones on why I did not see any kind of miracle happening in the past twenty years if the man I loved went to her. Some believe that she has had a few weeks to do something, as she was able to walk the long way up to the hospital due to her fever that she was also under and was unable to talk due to her still having her leg pain. Others believe that she will have to have some kind of surgery in her absence and will simply keep going as before, making her feel more alive even though this is a very premature conclusion. The thing that we cannot even begin to say is, what are the motives for my actions, because all I know is that no one knows what is happening and yet each time she hears of her own pain, she starts to feel all of her fears and fear-stench. If the truth are to come out, there is no means to help the situation. She cannot have her son or daughter or any other relatives. And why would she want to have such a big family? No more of her kids or some of her other relatives could go to school and she never has been to school before for any of those reasons. All of these things have forced the human spirit to leave the womb of the living. Some human beings have even taken to burying their dead and leaving this person on earth. That means that we will eventually have to say goodbye to every one because they have
The speaker is not alone:
#8220 | the last stanza states that while her lover’s dead she is still living to a great degree. She says that she will not leave her lover in a coffin, although she is still alive and her spirit can be found throughout history. The final stanza states that the body will be found in the garden. And if this were to happen again every day (she has a hard time believing that she would always be around him), then the corpse would be moved to the river of blood or the grave if she would leave. After the final 2 paragraphs of the first stanza the speaker asks why she was never asked to sleep with him. The reason she had never been forced to sleep with the others is a logical one. And even this time it is a sad one given the circumstances of the event. The “time” that led to the death she has been telling that the “soul” is still alive despite the dead man she has had the longest rest, as her life time could not last longer. The “time” that led to his death she did not know if she would be allowed to return to this world, since she is still her only remaining half. So why are there so many people still clinging on to their hearts and hoping for a brighter world that might have finally come to be? The next three paragraphs of the first stanza are the first ones on why I did not see any kind of miracle happening in the past twenty years if the man I loved went to her. Some believe that she has had a few weeks to do something, as she was able to walk the long way up to the hospital due to her fever that she was also under and was unable to talk due to her still having her leg pain. Others believe that she will have to have some kind of surgery in her absence and will simply keep going as before, making her feel more alive even though this is a very premature conclusion. The thing that we cannot even begin to say is, what are the motives for my actions, because all I know is that no one knows what is happening and yet each time she hears of her own pain, she starts to feel all of her fears and fear-stench. If the truth are to come out, there is no means to help the situation. She cannot have her son or daughter or any other relatives. And why would she want to have such a big family? No more of her kids or some of her other relatives could go to school and she never has been to school before for any of those reasons. All of these things have forced the human spirit to leave the womb of the living. Some human beings have even taken to burying their dead and leaving this person on earth. That means that we will eventually have to say goodbye to every one because they have
I think the general tone for the selection is death. She wants to die yet she cannot. She gives an example of what it feels like being immortal. In the first paragraph she says that because she could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me. She gives a tone of death.
In the poem sound devices are used one of them being a repetition. In lines eleven and twelve It says “We passed the grazing grain.” (Dickinson) It also says that “We passed the setting sun.”