Emily Dickinson Death

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Emily Dickinson has lost several of her friends and her family members so that made the main themes of this poem is about death. Death inform the most of her poetry because she feel frustrated for her lost. ‘’I could not not for death is not exclusive domain of poet or writer. ‘’Because I could not stop for death’’ is very common and standard imaged about death because we commonly refer to differently aspect of our life as a journey. Emily Dickinson compared our life with a journey said that people live their lives mean they are taking a journey and described death as the destination. Emily Dickinson used the Journey as the metaphor of this poem to show that everyone will reach the same destination in the end of their life. In this poem …show more content…
While I was reading the poem it give me a feeling of having a conversation with a speaker which seem like we are proposing arguing of discussion about death. This is a very active format because Emily Dickinson has drawn the reader to a conversation just like there are questions and answers in our mind. ‘’Because I could not stop for death’’ clearly talk about death so now the reader would focusing on what is going to happen about death. ‘’I could not stop for death he kindly stop for me.’’ is my favorite part in the poem, it mean that the speaker is too busy to think of the death and also most of the people does; nobody know when the death will arrive, no one could stop the death but only the death could stop us with no expectation and no preparation. There are many painful emotional associated with death and the fear with unknown so nobody want to think about it and people give death no thought at all excepted for people who is actually old or ill. People gave no thought to death so death have to remember them because people have no choice to choose when they want to die but death is the one who design and this matter is out of our

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