Death is peaceful, death is calm, death is not hurried. A majority of people perceive death as a painful experience that causes grief and misery, but is it possible that these accusations could be wrong? Emily Dickinson, the author of “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, challenges the average thought behind the presence of death which is shown through her poem. Dickinson’s mysterious writing method, often called upon as perplexing, is formed through her secluded lifestyle, fascination with death, and her drive to find a new outlook that is not popular in the eyes of society.
From an overview, Dickinson had a fairly normal life living in New England with her family. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. …show more content…
As stated earlier, Dickinson had a major preoccupation for quietus, which are vividly present in this poem. During this poem, Dickinson uses the word “kindly” (2) to demonstrate how even though she didn’t stop for death, it didn’t harshly stop for her, instead it stopped with a welcoming aroma. Society has most always categorized death with desolation, but Dickinson takes this notion and completely flips the whole meaning to it to show how death in her poem was not distressing, but yet gentle. Also, when she wrote “He knew no haste” (Dickinson 5), this grasped the idea of death was in no hurry, which is actually very divergent compared to how people view demise. When people often think of someone dying, most of the time they don’t describe it as something leisure and slow moving, but as someone being here one day and gone the next. Dickinson yet again depicts this thought process by conflicting it with “no haste” (5) which describes the pace of death as unhurried. Even though people throughout society usually have one viewpoint on dying which consists of misery, Dickinson disputes this average …show more content…
They believe that Dickinson “is often cryptic in thought and unmelodious in expression” ("The Poetry of Emily Dickinson.") which in some of her poems that can be very accurate. Dickinson’s word usage was often written to be confusing in order for each person to interpret her poems in different ways. No matter what, there is always a deeper message behind her poems than what the reader sees with just their eyes. In the poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, Dickinson personifies death such as when she wrote “We slowly drove” (5) implying that both her and death were driving. Then she stated “He know no haste” (Dickinson 5) which demonstrates how instead of just saying death isn’t always hurried, she changed the point of view of death to a man to describe his actions to add more emphasis on the opposing normal view of death. Her poems cause the reader to have to actually process and analyze her work in order to find the root meaning behind her “cryptic” ("The Poetry of Emily Dickinson.") thoughts. Dickenson never just threw words onto a page just for the fun of it, she used her words to portray a thinking in which is most likely a very antithetical view point which most people don’t normally
From an overview, Dickinson had a fairly normal life living in New England with her family. Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. …show more content…
As stated earlier, Dickinson had a major preoccupation for quietus, which are vividly present in this poem. During this poem, Dickinson uses the word “kindly” (2) to demonstrate how even though she didn’t stop for death, it didn’t harshly stop for her, instead it stopped with a welcoming aroma. Society has most always categorized death with desolation, but Dickinson takes this notion and completely flips the whole meaning to it to show how death in her poem was not distressing, but yet gentle. Also, when she wrote “He knew no haste” (Dickinson 5), this grasped the idea of death was in no hurry, which is actually very divergent compared to how people view demise. When people often think of someone dying, most of the time they don’t describe it as something leisure and slow moving, but as someone being here one day and gone the next. Dickinson yet again depicts this thought process by conflicting it with “no haste” (5) which describes the pace of death as unhurried. Even though people throughout society usually have one viewpoint on dying which consists of misery, Dickinson disputes this average …show more content…
They believe that Dickinson “is often cryptic in thought and unmelodious in expression” ("The Poetry of Emily Dickinson.") which in some of her poems that can be very accurate. Dickinson’s word usage was often written to be confusing in order for each person to interpret her poems in different ways. No matter what, there is always a deeper message behind her poems than what the reader sees with just their eyes. In the poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”, Dickinson personifies death such as when she wrote “We slowly drove” (5) implying that both her and death were driving. Then she stated “He know no haste” (Dickinson 5) which demonstrates how instead of just saying death isn’t always hurried, she changed the point of view of death to a man to describe his actions to add more emphasis on the opposing normal view of death. Her poems cause the reader to have to actually process and analyze her work in order to find the root meaning behind her “cryptic” ("The Poetry of Emily Dickinson.") thoughts. Dickenson never just threw words onto a page just for the fun of it, she used her words to portray a thinking in which is most likely a very antithetical view point which most people don’t normally