Dickinson was mainly known for her use of dashes to create an exaggerated pause in her poems. In “Because I could not stop for death,” she uses dashes at least four times in a stanza, …show more content…
This line of the poem the speaker tells how they are driving around with death, and mentioned earlier, they are in a carriage. This is could come from her personal background, which she ties into her poems, as every writer is told they should. She was said to be very fascinated with death, so that’s most likely where most of her inspiration comes from. While she was fascinated by it, she also did experience the passings of many people who were close to her, such as Sophia Holland, her cousin, Samuel Bowles, among others (Emilydickinsonmuseum.com). Her fascination of death also comes up in “I heard a Fly buzz - when I died,” as the first line is the same as the title, the poem describes what the speaker is noticing as everything is calming down before they