Emily Dickinson Metaphor

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Significance of Metaphor
Metaphor could use in many different way to show the significance of the story. In the poem “ Because I could not stop for Death” By Emily Dickinson’s, she say “ Because I could not stop for Death-- He kindly stopped for me-- The Carriage held but just Ourselves-- And Immortality”( Dickinson’s 759). At first she did not know when she is about to die, but later on she know she is going to die. She compared Death as a disease, or a murderer that trying to end her life, creating a mystery of who is Death, she is also compared dead as Immortality, to the afterlife. There are also another portion of the poem, she stated “ We paused before a House that seemed-- A swelling of the Ground-- The Roof was scarcely visible-- The

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