Summary Of Because I Could Not Stop For Death

In “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, Death is ready to claim the speaker’s soul, but just before she leaves they strove through memory lane. The speaker doesn’t seem scared at all because she called Death’s action “kindly”, making Death seem friendly. The figures of speech of anaphora, imagery, and personification were presented in this poem to help create a certain effect and reveal the true meaning of this poem. The message is to enjoy life as long as you can because you do not know when it’s your time to die.
The phrase “We passed the” in lines 9-12 was repeated several times, emphasizing the idea that the speaker and Death have a journey before the speaker faces their eternal death. This is a type of figure of speech called anaphora, which is the repetition at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences. Anaphora gives a general effect by emphasizing the idea that is being repeated. It also helps pull the audience along. …show more content…
Readers can visualize themselves actually passing the schoolyard while watching the children play during recess. When readers read the text “the Fields of Gazing Grain” you imagine a field full of grain flowing with the wind. Imagery allows audience to be in the speaker shoes, by making them feel like they’re