Because I could not stop for Death is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. She did not give title her poems therefore at first numbers were given to them in the 20th century. The primary themes of Emily Dickinson’s poetry were love and death. In this essay, I am going to explain the importance of this poem and the personification of Death. First of all, Emily Dickinson initiates her poem with a cosmic opening. She personified Death in the form of a polite, kind gentleman consequently she cannot be scared of Death. This gentleman offers her a pleasant invitation and as a result they go for a ride. Secondly, in the third stanza we can see 3 different facts of her life: the childhood, the adulthood and the old ages. The author characterizes it with 3 distinctive sets of metaphors. The Setting Sun, which is a metaphor for old life, is the edge of the material world though with death our lifetime is not ended, what is more, grave is not our final destination; it is just another form of life.
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“I first surmised the Horses’ Heads, Were toward Eternity-“. The last 2 lines determine us a certain direction therefore we can definitely assume that Eternity is a place. But after all there is a tension since there are the horses, Eternity and they are still riding. In conclusion, “Because I could not stop for Death” is one of the most remarkable poems of Emily Dickinson. She could express to reader that Death can be “great” and inevitable. This is also a part of our life as well as we should accept
“I first surmised the Horses’ Heads, Were toward Eternity-“. The last 2 lines determine us a certain direction therefore we can definitely assume that Eternity is a place. But after all there is a tension since there are the horses, Eternity and they are still riding. In conclusion, “Because I could not stop for Death” is one of the most remarkable poems of Emily Dickinson. She could express to reader that Death can be “great” and inevitable. This is also a part of our life as well as we should accept