Analysis Of Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not Stop for Death (1890) simply conveys about death with the dark nuance and gloomy shades. However, this poem cannot establish its death without surpassing the other deaths because death is not simply about the experience to have, but it is also about how death is explored in to representations to pour its tone, feel and emotion. From its early lines, it can be read that there are words of Death (line 1, stanza 1), Carriage (line 3, stanza 1) and Immortality (line 4, stanza 1), these three early main words dribble the assumption for imaginary perception of this dark poem to a gentleman caller taking a leisurely carriage ride with the speaker to her grave. Death refers to someone’s end, Carriage refers to the dead body carried to the cemetery and Immortality refers to the eternal life.
After passing this coop contextually, we must put the viewpoint on to this border and as we have to realize, Dickinson rewrote this poem as she has developed from her original Because I could not Stop for Death. The first published version is entitled The Chariot, in the third stanza, she changed the “…where children played, their lessons scarcely done” while in the new version, “where the children strove at Recess – in the ring”. It is just about the change in the level of dictions and lexicons, but when it is scrutinized deeply, it can be found the context which influences this change as we know “children played” indicates that children live as children while “children strove” indicates a critic of how children are massacred by the industrial revolution. Thus, time changes this revised