Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death 
Emily Dickinson's poems are simply records of her thoughts and feelings of her experiences over the course of a lifetime devoted to reflection, however Dickinson’s main poetry is written about what she knew and what intrigued her. Dickinson explores her own feelings with diligent and often painful honesty.
In "Because I could not stop for Death", there are various themes within the poem. However the main theme explored through out the poem is death, as we see death personified. In the visual the human hand depicts death. Death is portrayed in the form of a gentleman suitor who is courteous and a gentle guide, the speaker feels no fear when Death takes her on a journey leading towards eternity in his carriage, she sees this as an act of kindness as in the first stanza states "he kindly stopped for me." In the first stanza "The carriage held but just ourselves," this suggests romantic imagery, as the carriage creates an intimate moment between the two. Although the it is on a journey leading towards her grave, as the visual has repeated carriage portrays the movement of the carriages. In the second stanza the alliteration of "labor" and "leisure" emphasises that on her journey to death she has to give up her life.
Dickinson uses repetition and past tense of the word "passed" to show that as death is now showing her, her past life of "where children strove," and of "the fields of grazing grain" and also the "setting sun." In the visual positioning the fields, children, and the setting sun in the lighter shade of the gradient and also in the higher section represents that those parts of her life were happy and bright and furthermore portrays that she and death is watching above. The next stanza Dickinson uses kinesthetic imagery in "the dews grew wavering and chill," to portray the speakers realisation of who death truly is as things become cold and more sinister. The dark dripping black in the visual represents the speakers awareness of deaths true self as it is
In "Because I could not stop for Death", there are various themes within the poem. However the main theme explored through out the poem is death, as we see death personified. In the visual the human hand depicts death. Death is portrayed in the form of a gentleman suitor who is courteous and a gentle guide, the speaker feels no fear when Death takes her on a journey leading towards eternity in his carriage, she sees this as an act of kindness as in the first stanza states "he kindly stopped for me." In the first stanza "The carriage held but just ourselves," this suggests romantic imagery, as the carriage creates an intimate moment between the two. Although the it is on a journey leading towards her grave, as the visual has repeated carriage portrays the movement of the carriages. In the second stanza the alliteration of "labor" and "leisure" emphasises that on her journey to death she has to give up her life.
Dickinson uses repetition and past tense of the word "passed" to show that as death is now showing her, her past life of "where children strove," and of "the fields of grazing grain" and also the "setting sun." In the visual positioning the fields, children, and the setting sun in the lighter shade of the gradient and also in the higher section represents that those parts of her life were happy and bright and furthermore portrays that she and death is watching above. The next stanza Dickinson uses kinesthetic imagery in "the dews grew wavering and chill," to portray the speakers realisation of who death truly is as things become cold and more sinister. The dark dripping black in the visual represents the speakers awareness of deaths true self as it is