I Could Not Stop For Death

Many people have different outlets to express themselves. Emily Dickinson chose to express herself through her writing. Even though her she was not a famous poem in her living days her work did inspire many in the future. Emily Dickinson writes about things that are popular in anyone’s life such as love and death. In the poem “I could not stop for death” Emily Dickinson personifies death in order to reflect on her life before her passing. Many people including myself can relate to her themes of writing, and she touches on immortality, death, and acceptance in this poem. Death is one topic that few are comfortable talking about but Dickinson takes the topic head in her poem. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker enters into a chariot to reveal that death and immortality are already present within the chariot. Mark Spencer explains that journey is a process saying and that “The end of earthly existence is but the first stage in a two-step process. The …show more content…
Dickinson did not fight death and she saw him as more or helper in her passage. Dickinson describes death as a kind man when she wrote “because I could stop for death, he kindly stops for me” (in-text Citation). Dickinson was a reclusive person and did not associate with many people. In her time many of the people she cared about had died, and I feel as though this is why she was so accepting. Dickinson did not shy away from death because it did not give her the same courtesy. Ultimately Dickinson reflects on her presence in the world and is fully aware of her mortality. She is not afraid of death and she is okay with the life she had lived thus far when she wrote it. In the end, I can agree with Dickinson in reflecting on death as she has and being able to accept it with such grace. Emily Dickinson’s writing was a reflection of the woman she was and the kind of life that she