Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson
Study between Death and Permanence in Emily Dickinson’s ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death.’
The modern writer J.R.R. Tolkien said, ‘Death is just another path, one that we all must take.’ The similar idea has been put forward by an American poet Emily Dickinson for nearly fifty years, in her poetry ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death.’ Through the contrast to her poem, she humanised the ‘death’ to claim death is not terrible , is a journey to all people, and the soul could be eternal. It raises a deeply pondering over the ‘death’ and ‘eternity’.
From the first to third stanzas, the poet introduces that death is not frightening and it will come to everyone. Above all, she made a personification of death. First, she used some adverbs like ‘Kindly’ (line 2), ‘Slowly’, ‘No Haste’ (4), and ‘For His Civility’ (8) which described ‘death’ as a gentleman who was amiable and polite. …show more content…
First of all, drawing description from the fifth stanza, ‘House’ (17), ‘Swelling of the Ground’ (18), ‘The Cornice’, and ‘In the Ground’ (20) were implemented to depict a grave. After analysing these, I suppose that the narrator would be passed away. Finally, through words ’Tis centuries’ (21), ‘Surmise’, ‘Horses Heads’ (23) ‘Toward Eternity’ (24), hinted that this dead woman assumed that her soul would be eternal, after hundreds of years travelling with ‘Death’. soul also has the sense of spirit and thinking that could be passed and kept in mind, which had effects in future. For example, Confucius for the Chinese. Though he had been dead since 2500 years ago, his statements came down and influenced on the current society. As Nu Xun, a contemporary Chinese author, said, ‘If nobody remembers you, you are really dead.’ Whereas you could be alive forever in other hearts, by spiritual
The modern writer J.R.R. Tolkien said, ‘Death is just another path, one that we all must take.’ The similar idea has been put forward by an American poet Emily Dickinson for nearly fifty years, in her poetry ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death.’ Through the contrast to her poem, she humanised the ‘death’ to claim death is not terrible , is a journey to all people, and the soul could be eternal. It raises a deeply pondering over the ‘death’ and ‘eternity’.
From the first to third stanzas, the poet introduces that death is not frightening and it will come to everyone. Above all, she made a personification of death. First, she used some adverbs like ‘Kindly’ (line 2), ‘Slowly’, ‘No Haste’ (4), and ‘For His Civility’ (8) which described ‘death’ as a gentleman who was amiable and polite. …show more content…
First of all, drawing description from the fifth stanza, ‘House’ (17), ‘Swelling of the Ground’ (18), ‘The Cornice’, and ‘In the Ground’ (20) were implemented to depict a grave. After analysing these, I suppose that the narrator would be passed away. Finally, through words ’Tis centuries’ (21), ‘Surmise’, ‘Horses Heads’ (23) ‘Toward Eternity’ (24), hinted that this dead woman assumed that her soul would be eternal, after hundreds of years travelling with ‘Death’. soul also has the sense of spirit and thinking that could be passed and kept in mind, which had effects in future. For example, Confucius for the Chinese. Though he had been dead since 2500 years ago, his statements came down and influenced on the current society. As Nu Xun, a contemporary Chinese author, said, ‘If nobody remembers you, you are really dead.’ Whereas you could be alive forever in other hearts, by spiritual