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    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

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    Emily Dickinson is a well known Transcendentalist who became famous when her poems were published after her death. She promoted Isolationism‚ and Death in her poetry. The majority of her poems were about death and the experience of death. Emily’s poem the “Because I could not stop for death”‚ was about poem is about as a being or entity. In the beginning she spoke of how she stepped into Death’s carriage and how he nor her was in a her. They rode nearby a school filled with children playing outside

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    the danger of thorns living within the beauty of the flower. Because I could not stop for death- by Emily Dickinson is a narrative poem about a woman’s life passing by as she dies on Death’s carriage. During the narrator’s journey‚ she experiences her life passing through her eyes‚ but in the end she realizes that while life does oppose death‚ it is only in death that one may experience an eternal existence since nothing exists after death. Influenced by the many negative and eminent experiences‚ Emily

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    Because I could not stop for Death‚” is a poem by Emily Dickinson where she uses death as a person and the speaker is communicating its journey from beyond the grave. This is my first time reading Dickinson and I am impressed by her style; furthermore in the few poems I had read I notice the usage of death over and over again. In this poem she persuades the reader by the way she opens the poem; the speaker is too busy for death‚ so death “Kindly” takes the time to do what she cannot and waits for

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    In these poems I have read them and they all have deeper meaning .With this deeper meaning many of the authors of these poems are kind of off but these poems symbolizes the journey in my eyes because most of them has to deal with a process of death or the process of the afterlife. In‚” Because I could not stop for Death”‚ would be considered the journey because of the story relating to the spiritual life after death .The life after death is describe as little as detail .But what I can infer that

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    in Tamil Nadu Higher Secondary Educational Service.  Syllabus: English (Subject Code: P02)  Unit-I – MODERN LITERATURE (1400-1600)  Poetry For Detailed Study Chaucer : Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Spenser : Faerie Queene - Book-I  For Non-detailed Study Spenser : Prothalamion and Epithalamion Wyatt‚ Surrey: Selections in Peacock’s English verse‚ Vol-I Ballads : Peacock - Vol-II  Prose For Detailed Study Bacon - Essays - Of Truth

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    published before her death in 1886. After her death her sister‚  Lavinia‚ found all of her poems and published them into book called‚ "The poems of Emily Dickinson". Among these poems she found was‚ "Because I Could Not Stop for Death". And in the particular poem‚ Dickinson uses personification‚ symbolism‚ and metaphors to explain her journey to accepting death.     Dickinson uses personification to show that death is like a person in the poem. "Because I could not stop for death" conveys personification

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    An analysis of Emily Dickinson’s Poem “Because I could not stop for Death” The background of Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the 19th century. Her writing style is quiet weird at that time. Here is a description of Emily Dickinson from the book The recognition of Emily Dickinson: selected criticism since 1890[1]‚ “Her poetry is not like any other poetry of her time; it is not like any of the innumerable kinds of verse written today.” Therefore

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    Poetic Analysis on Because I Could Not Stop for Death It is known that Emily Dickinson had a natural fear and obsession for death and her contemplation of her death is reflected in her poem‚ Because I Could Not Stop for Death. In Dickinson’s works‚ she personified death‚ the central theme of the poem. Instead of describing death as a place of being or a state of mind‚ she describes death as a person or spirit coming to retrieve her soul. This poem reflects her inner thoughts on her own death and the

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    The poems “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Crossing the Bar” by Alfred‚ Lord Tennyson are similar in two ways. They are also different in one way. First‚ they are both referring to death. Secondly‚ they are showing death in the form of a journey. Finally‚ they are different in the way that “Because I could not stop for Death” is using personification for death. Where “Crossing the Bar” is using metaphors to describe death. Our first similarity is that both the poems

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