Personification

uses end rhyme in lines 2 and 4 and internal rhyme in line 3 and ØImmortality: (or eternal life) is the concept of living in physical or spiritual form for an infinite length of time. Dickinson’s approach on death is primarily shown through personification where she utilises death and immortality as characters. For instance, “Because I could not stop Death- He kindly stopped for me” This shows that death is being personified from life to afterlife and that she is busy to stop for death. The…

usually encompass a grim reaper taking someone’s life. However, in “Because I Could Not Stop For Death,” by Emily Dickinson, figurative language like personification is used to portray Death as a well-mannered person. The poem revolves around the idea that Death is taking her to eternity. Dickinson also uses various symbols with personification to help impart her message that Death is an assured occurrence. Additionally, Robert Frost uses symbolism in his poem, “Fire and Ice,” to convey that…

Anne Sexton uses tone to convey meaning and to express her feelings. Tone is also used to help the reader understand the theme of the poem. This poem not only uses tone and her emotions, but it also uses details and figurative language, like personification and symbols, to help describe…

last line of quatrain 3 which tells us what love is. In quatrain 1, the speaker uses wordplay and an enjambment to explain that real love does not change under any circumstance. In quatrain 3 the speaker explains what love is not through the personification of time. Love is not at the mercy of time, it is not “Time’s fool” (9). It is fitting that the speaker gives us the message of the sonnet in quatrain 2, it is as if the poem is a sandwich in that the “meat” of the poem is in the middle. The…

a Novel, does a fantastic job of setting up the overall feeling of the book in the first chapter, by utilizing detailed descriptions and comparisons as well as personifying ‘a cold November wind’ in an interesting way. The dictionary defines personification as “the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure” (Dictionary.com). In this particular instance, the wind is a blockade for Lutie, the main character, in…

“Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, displays poetic excellence because, it is not didactic, it contains no sentiment, and uses figurative language excellently. The theme of the poem is, when people die, they go into a new life of eternity and have a new beginning. The poem is about a woman who nears death and sees death as something pleasant because her life has become sorrow, which is symbolized with the broken down house. Death is personified as a gentleman caller to show…

He arrives in a carriage with Immortality to take the author to her grave. Death is formal and gentle, with the author telling us of “his civility.” The stracture of the poem and the personification of Death alludes to Dickinson’s comfort with the subject; she seems to regard death as a change in mind, rather than a total departure. The last stanza shows that Dickinson regards death as eternity, rather than a final end. In short, Death in…

her readers because she uses many forms of figurative language, such as, irony, personification, paradox, and similes. For example, in her poem “Because I could not stop for Death,” Dickinson writes “Because I could not stop for Death / He kindly stopped for me- / The Carriage held but just Ourselves- / And Immortality.” (Lines 1-4) In this passage, Dickinson uses two forms of figurative language; personification and irony. She ironically portrays Death as a gentleman by giving him human…

In three literary works above talking about the same topic, that is DEATH. The word death in Because I Could Not For Death interprets as positive thing which refers to respect and reverence. It indicates from the word kindly and civility in poem. Dickinson in her poem in the first line of the first stanza states that she could not stop for the death. It means that she has no choice when she will die. Everyone will die but in different times and different ways. Death is not described as…

Poetry assembles literary devices and figurative language in a sophisticated manner to aesthetically portray ideas and explore a central theme with an artistic edge. Emily Dickinson’s 1863 poem Because I could not stop for Death conveys the idea of succumbing to mortality without putting up an act of defiance; Death is just a purveyor of eternal rest and quietude. Dickinson also illustrates that everyone must transcend mortality and head “towards eternity" at one point as death is inevitable for…