Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Themes in Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" Dickinson has written over a hundred poems in her complex life. She writes poems so neatly and secretive, she has become a very famous poet. In her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," she writes of a woman's "date with death." Unlike other stories about death, she illustrates death not as a reaper or even a menace, but as a polite gentleman. All of Dickinson's poems are about death and immorality. She portrays great detail of their meaning to the poems she writes. Dickinson is said to have written so large a number of poems after withdrawing from society because of an n emotional crisis. The following themes are found in Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death": cycles of life, death and time (Napierkowski and Ruby 26-30). …show more content…
The imagery used during the carriage ride concludes that life is a circle, as the cradle-to-grave motion brings us back to where we started. An example would be the children playing "in a ring," that represents children constantly testing their strengths and the endless cycle of it. The fields of grain show the life-long cycle of planting and harvesting just like the human cycle of life. The setting sun shows the ending which is to be only temporary and as humans see as the universal clock. The whole poem shows a circular pattern by bringing us back in the last stanza to where we were in the first (Napierkowski and Ruby