(reading literature: Because i could not stop for death)
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(reading literature: Because i could not stop for death)
By Emily Dickinson
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Because I could not stop for death
In this poem, Dickinson’s speaker is communicating from beyond the grave, describing her journey with Death, personified, from life to afterlife. In the opening stanza, the speaker is too busy for Death (“Because I could not stop for Death—“), so Death—“kindly”—takes the time to do what she cannot, and stops for her.
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We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.
The speaker describes death as a man who is kind, slow, and civil, arriving in a carriage. He is not frightening. This creates the image of a romantic date with death.
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By Emily Dickinson
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