Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson

Some people take death hard as other people aren’t affected by death at all. Many people don’t know when there last day on earth is and many poets like to write and reflect on this theme. Death is never a good thing to go through but everybody go through it. Emily Dickinson, author of Because I Could Not Stop for Death and Christina Rossetti, author of After Death are two poets who wrote about death. Because I Could Not Stop for Death was very reflective and calm as After death is criticizing men and possibility of living after you die. Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson, is a poem about a woman going through death. The name of this poem would make you think that this poem is all sad but the poet made this poem very thoughtful. Dickenson uses a lot of personification and alliteration in this poem that really helped me know the theme and tone. One example of personification that caught my eye in the poem “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me” (1-2). Dickenson often portrayed death as a person in this
This poem is a little different than the other poem. This poem doesn’t really have descriptions and visual details but she often uses active verbs to describe her perceptions. A woman on a death bed that died and is talking to a man seems to be the theme of this poem. The poet makes everyone think about the afterlife like in the other poem. The man she is talking to is also talking to her and feel bad for her for example when he says “poor child, poor child (7-8)”. The man is showing love for her while she’s dead but when she was alive he didn’t treat her that way. There’s a saying that says “You never know what you got until its gone”. That saying applies to what happened in this poem. The woman now feels loved but she knows it’s too late for all of that and he also didn’t know she could hear or see