Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson

As the title of Emily Dickson’s poems says, “The brain- is wider than the sky- for – put them side by side”, which means that the brain will take in the sky. Fourth line of poem says, “With ease—and You—beside.” She tries to says that the brain is deeper than the sea, and that its “Blue to Blue,” and that the brain will absorb the sea as sponges and like buckets absorb water. The brain, as she says, is like a heavy weight in God and the brain’s weight which will get away from the weight of God only in the way that differs from sound.

In “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, Emily which she puts as herself as first-person point of view and “Death” are taking the journey. In line 3 and four she says The Carriage held but just Ourselves and Immortality which is the ability to live forever. She knows this journey to death is also the beginning of the afterlife. So, she believes she will continue a life, just not here on Earth. No wonder she's not freaking out. The carriage in which Death and the Emily ride is a metaphor for the way in which we make our final passage to death. They drive in the carriage along her town and past the schoolyard and fields of grain, and then to her grave. In line five, “We slowly drove – He knew no haste” this is telling us that death is in control and it’s not something we can choose. …show more content…
Like for example in the first line, we'd be telling the whole truth, but not in a straight-up or direct sort of way. She also saying that the reason a person can off the truth is due the fact that the truth can be taken in either a positive or negative way. She basically is trying to say to say the truth don’t be dishonest but don’t say it straight forward say it with a slang a nicer