The poem 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death ' by Emily Dickinson dramatizes the conflict between mortality and immortality and the speakers gentle acceptance of death. It is a story told by the speaker memorizing the day that she died. The speaker reveals that she is a very busy person that could not sit idly by and wait for death. She reveals her mortality in the first two lines of the poem. “Because I could not stop for Death/He kindly stopped for me” the speaker insinuates that she realizes no one can escape death.
Personification is used to give death a human form. In the first stanza the speaker uses personification to describe death. “He kindly stopped for me”. Death something that everyone eventually experiences; the …show more content…
“We passed the school,where children strove/ at recess-in the ring”. This reveals that the carriage was moving slow enough for her to notice children on the playground challenging one another. The fact that children are out at recess indicates that it is probably early afternoon or possibly after lunch. This fact sets a timeline of when her journey began. “We passed the setting sun”’reveals that her procession continued into the late afternoon evening time. As night falls the speaker asserts that she got a little chilled. “The dews drew quivering and a chill.” She doesn 't seem a bit alarmed but admits that she is a little scantily dressed for her evening ride. “For only Gossamer, my gown/ My tippet- only Tulle” this indicates that she is wearing a thin gown with and an old fashioned silky thin shoulder …show more content…
Emily Dickinson uses four line stanzas these are called quatrains. The meter or pattern of the beat is an iambic or rhyming. “Iambic meter is supposed to follow the most common pattern of the English speech.” (Shmoop.com) The rhyming pattern is irregular. It is written in a half rhyme pattern. The rhyme is formed by words that are similar not identical. One example of this is me and immortality in lines two and four. These "Half" rhymes are spread all throughout the poem. This helps bind the poem together. Another pattern in the poem is the use of the words, "We passed" in lines 9,11, and 12. In line 17 similar wording is used but is changed to, "We paused". The poem flows smoothly which adds to the beauty of the poem. It is a well told story of the speaker remembering her former life and the day of her death. She portrays a picture of death being kind and peaceful and although she lead a busy life death is something she could not escape thus accepted it with
Personification is used to give death a human form. In the first stanza the speaker uses personification to describe death. “He kindly stopped for me”. Death something that everyone eventually experiences; the …show more content…
“We passed the school,where children strove/ at recess-in the ring”. This reveals that the carriage was moving slow enough for her to notice children on the playground challenging one another. The fact that children are out at recess indicates that it is probably early afternoon or possibly after lunch. This fact sets a timeline of when her journey began. “We passed the setting sun”’reveals that her procession continued into the late afternoon evening time. As night falls the speaker asserts that she got a little chilled. “The dews drew quivering and a chill.” She doesn 't seem a bit alarmed but admits that she is a little scantily dressed for her evening ride. “For only Gossamer, my gown/ My tippet- only Tulle” this indicates that she is wearing a thin gown with and an old fashioned silky thin shoulder …show more content…
Emily Dickinson uses four line stanzas these are called quatrains. The meter or pattern of the beat is an iambic or rhyming. “Iambic meter is supposed to follow the most common pattern of the English speech.” (Shmoop.com) The rhyming pattern is irregular. It is written in a half rhyme pattern. The rhyme is formed by words that are similar not identical. One example of this is me and immortality in lines two and four. These "Half" rhymes are spread all throughout the poem. This helps bind the poem together. Another pattern in the poem is the use of the words, "We passed" in lines 9,11, and 12. In line 17 similar wording is used but is changed to, "We paused". The poem flows smoothly which adds to the beauty of the poem. It is a well told story of the speaker remembering her former life and the day of her death. She portrays a picture of death being kind and peaceful and although she lead a busy life death is something she could not escape thus accepted it with