Analysis Of The Peace Of Death

This poem dramatizes the conflict between life and death. Throughout the poem Dickinson portrays that living is great but what comes after this life is even better; the peace of death. The title of the poem states that really nobody have no control on when they are going to die, so enjoy the ride. The diction of this poem is very highly educated, the author uses a lot of words that normally our day of age do not use. This poem does not have a specific rhyme scheme, or really a poetic meter. It is an open poem, but the readers can see throughout the poem that this poem is being spoken by a women with high diction. The tone of the poem would be cheery for the readers because the speaker is being lively on how she looks at death. Some imagery that is told in this poem is when the poet is telling the reader about what girl is wearing. You can mentally see the way the clothes she wears but you can also feel the way they are.

This line is stating that again people have no control over when they are going to die and how. It continues by saying “He kindly stopped for me-/The Carriage held but just Ourselves-/And Immortality.(2-4). In the first line, the poet capitalizes Death. Capitalizing death is personifying the word Death to be a noun. So going into the lines two and three “Death” (1) which the poet is referring to is like the coachman that drives a carriage around. Not only is “Death” being personified but “he” is being symbolized to death. So it goes both ways here. The poet also has a metaphor in this stanza. A carriage is being compared to death (1). But going back to line two, “he” stopped for this speaker. So the speaker did not die just yet. In line four it uses the word “immortality”, so the speaker is thinking that dying is not “the end.” There is