Emily Dickinson's Because I Would Not Stop For Death

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In life, sometimes lives are so busy and full of activates that we forget to stop and think about reality, death, and life itself. Emily Dickinson, born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, grew up with one thought that troubled her, her entire life: Death. She was so troubled by the very thought of death, that all 1,800 poems that she wrote had something to do with death. In her well-known poem “Because I Would Not Stop for Death”, she compares a young man to death, who taking a young woman out. He is very patient, allowing her to take her time, and when the time comes, he turns the carriage not towards home, but towards eternity. Death is always right beside us, it travels with us throughout our lives, but that does not mean we have

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