Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, and she was the daughter of a lawyer. When she was a child she very enthralled with cooking, sewing, playing with friends, and studying for school. She was very outgoing as a child but as she began to get older she became more and more isolated. She traveled to many different places including Boston and Philadelphia. But as she grew older she would just stay in her hometown and she would rarely leave her house. The last ten years of her life she would just stay in her garden and house. As she aged even more her circle of friends got smaller and smaller leaving her by herself soon after. Dickinson dressed only in white and wouldn’t allow others to see her. When her health was failing she only allowed her doctor to observe her from a distance. She died in 1886 of unknown causes. In 1955 her poems were published and her work was recognized on a worldwide scale. …show more content…
This carriage began taking her on a journey of life's joys. The poem says she had to put away her labor and leisures because when she got closer and closer to dying she had to stop working and stop doing the things in life she loved. The carriage then passed the school where this section of the poem could have been taken more than one way, one of the ways being she was remembering about the time she would go outside for recess when she was in school. Or this could also be interpreted in her wishing she would have had kids. The poem talks about a gown next which is telling us that she wishes she would have gotten married when she had that chance. The next stanza is telling us about a cornice, this is a grace, she started to think even more about dying and where she was going to be