Because I Could Not Stop For Death Analysis Essay

Emily Dickinson, a prolific writer with an astounding number of works to have been written with themes pertaining to death and immortality. Her poems utilizes a profuse amount of em dashes and random capitalization. For example, in Because I could not stop for Death which retells a story of a lady who travels with Death in a carriage ride, Dickinson uses em dashes and random capitalization. Emily Dickinson influences for her works is thought to be because she was a reclusive, and introverted poet who would not leave her house most of the time, and her limited contact with people. Her education was from primary schooling in Amherst Academy and in Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which she studied for a brief time. Emily Dickinson did not became
Poems are labeled in certain terms such as the type of meters and the number of feet. In the poem, it is an iambic meter and the number of feet varying throughout the poem, which Emily Dickinson does very often in other works. In the poem, the meter varies of each line of each stanza as the meter goes from iambic tetrameter to iambic trimeter which is followed throughout the stanzas except for stanza four which goes from iambic trimeter to iambic tetrameter. It changes the pattern, but then returns to it’s original pattern of tetrameter to
Although the following stanza returns to the pattern, this is particularly important as it shows a change in pattern but soon returns to its normal pattern. Through the stanzas, it is a repetitive cycle of the meter change but then comes in the fourth stanza which alters the cycle. Similarly, Dickinson conveys a message in the poem of life being a cycle and that when incidents occur it slightly alters the cycle. Ultimately leading to the cycle returning to work normally again. The line change in the stanzas display an idea in relation to the plotline of the poem as the meaning of it is the continuous cycle of life and death, and that the circumstances lead to conflicts yet restarts the