Metaphors Used In Emily Dickinson's Poetry

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Dickinson's poems are filled images, metaphors and symbolism to creates memorable scenes. Her stanza forms and rhythmical nuances contribute to the poems effects. In “Because I Could Not Stop For Death” Emily Dickinson’s uses Death as an extended metaphor of what death might be like. He is not what we would think, an old clocked figure that is to be feared, but instead a young man. He is a good guy, a true gentleman. Death comes in a carriage that also hold “Immortality” this is a depiction of how we pass from life to death. The house in the ground was her grave” We paused before a House that seemed a Swelling of the Ground “in her poems. Her poems are definitely good and like a good book they need to be read a few times to catch any missed

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