Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop For Death
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Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death” truly attracted me. Death is inevitable for all human beings. When we were given birth, we started to face death. How to face death is the most difficult class we need to study in our life and most of people are not able to get good grade in that class. In Dickinson’s poem, she gives me a total new view about death: humans are doomed to die, however humanity is able to exist forever. I want to understand her opinions about death and immortality; this can help me have more comprehension about death and lives. In this paper, I want to explain Dickinson’s ideas about death, such as how to face it and how to accept it. I will also compare her idea with other philosophers. It is necessary to …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how dickinson's poem "because i could not stop for death" attracted them. they want to understand her opinions about death and immortality, and compare her ideas with other philosophers.
- Explains that they expanded the content and finished the analyzation. they also wanted to polish the part of synthesis and valuation.
- Analyzes emily dickinson's poem "because i could not stop for death" to let readers understand the poem deeper.
- Explains that the poem has 6 parts, each part has 4 lines, but it still contains rhymes that make the whole poem combined. the capital words are a smart technique, which can lead readers to follow her thinking.
- Analyzes how dickinson models a different image of death in the first part of the poem.
- Analyzes how the third section is full of symbolic meanings. dickinson passed by her childhood with death, then went through "fields of gazing grain".
- Analyzes how dickinson's view of death changed after a warm and enjoyable trip with the death. she realized that mr. death is not traveler, but spectator in her life.
- Analyzes how dickinson changed the word "pass" to "pause" in the fifth section of the poem.
- Analyzes how dickinson realized that life is short and windy compared with immortality, thus it is meaningless to focus on the length of human beings' life.
- Analyzes how dickinson connects philosophical thinking of death and the poem, which breaks the restriction of time and space.
- Explains the reasons people fear death are the same in essentials while differing in minor points. it is painful when people have to leave their family, lovers and friends forever.
Emily Dickinson describes an unusual and meaningful trip with “Death”. The poem was written around 1863, originally, the poem was not titled. When it was published, Thomas Johnson named it depending on the meaning of the poem. Dickinson did not fond of gaining reputation and money-she even tried to avoid those. She focused on artist creation, for instance writing poems. Therefore, she achieved the extreme high levels in writing. Her poems are vacant and inspiring. She had a deep thinking about the connection of death and immortality in this poem. I am going to analyze the poem on its forms and depths to let the readers understand the poem …show more content…
In this poem, she connects philosophical thinking of death and the poem, which breaks the restriction of time and space. She takes advantage of a large amount of rhetorical devices, for instance, symbolizes and metaphor to express her opinions about the relationship of death, and immortal. She makes efforts to model a different image of death; Mr. Death is not ruthless or relentless anymore. Death is the common and eternal topic in the world; philosophers from all over that word try to find out the truth about the death. There are some similarities between Dickinson’s opinions and Chinese philosophies. Life is short and unstable; however, death is destined and eternal. If we want to have eternity, we cannot pin our hope on the human body because it will die sooner or later. But, human beings’ spirit and humanity which are not controlled by natural laws which can exist forever. Therefore, it is unnecessary to be afraid of death. Treated him like your old friend-accept and welcome
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how emily dickinson, one of the most respected poets in american history, has inspired writers for nearly two centuries. she had a severe sickness that led her to return home from the female seminary.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson's "because i could not stop for death" is one of her most discussed and famous poems due to its unique view on the popular subject of death.
- Analyzes how dickinson's "because i could not stop for death" gives the reader a feeling of gradual movement throughout the second and third groups and verses.
- Analyzes how dickinson's poem becomes more sorrowful as the woman gets closer to her final destination, but in the last four lines she gives the reader a glimpse of hope.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson conveys to the reader that death is the final passageway for this life, though there may be another life out there for you.
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- Analyzes how emily dickinson explores her curiosity of death and the afterlife through her creative writing ability. her poems "because i could not stop for death" and "i heard a fly buzz when i died" show parallel and opposing views.
- Analyzes how dickenson's poem, "because i could not stop for death," illustrates the passage of her own death from beyond the grave in a more tender way.
- Analyzes how dickinson's "i heard a fly buzz when i died" is more ridged and scary when it comes to explaining death.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson uses different strategies to highlight the changeable character of death.
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- Analyzes how emily dickinson uses death as the central theme for many of her poems. being a traditional christian, she believed in the afterlife after death.
- Analyzes how dickinson's poems revolve around the theme of death, and how the narrator accepts death with open arms.
- Analyzes how dickinson presents three stages of life in her poem "because i could not stop for death."
- Analyzes dickinson's poem "because i could not stop for death" to demonstrate that death is a natural part of life.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson uses imagery and symbolism in her stories to show her readers that she calmly accepts what death has to bring for her.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson's use of death in her poems presents many different emotions. she displays that when a person dies, all the feelings, truth, beauty, gestures all die with that person.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson portrays the meaning of death, an afterlife, and immortality through her poems. she shows society that there is nothing wrong with embracing death with friendship.
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- Analyzes how the poems "death, be not proud" by john donne and "because i could not stop for death", by emily dickinson, paint a different light on the situation.
- Analyzes how dickinson's poem depicts death as a chivalrous man, and accepts him as her time.
- Analyzes how death can be personified in different ways in the poem.
- Analyzes how donne's personification of death is the main driving force behind his statements aimed at death.
- Analyzes how both sonnets represent an aspect of death and show that when the time comes, you can accept death for what it is, or fear it, though it will only have power over you for an instant.
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- Compares bryant vs. dickinson in "because i could not stop for death" using personification, extended metaphor, and william cullen's analogies in the poem "thanatopsis."
- Analyzes how dickinson's poem, "because i could not stop for death," reminds readers that death is the end of life and energy. the poet rides in a carriage with death and immortality.
- Analyzes how both dickinson and bryant viewed death as part of the circle of life and that unlike life, the cycle is immortal.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson and william cullen bryant used their beliefs, religion, imagination, and their talented writing skills to voice their opinion.
- Analyzes how william cullen bryant speaks a different language to him who in the love of nature holdscommunion with her visible forms, and she glides5into his darker musing, with mild and healing sympathy.
- Opines that of the last bitter hour come like a blightover thy spirit, and sad images.
- Opines that earth, that nourished thee, shall claimthe growth, to be resolved to earth again, and surrendered upthine individual being, shalt thou go.
- Opines that the oak sends his roots abroad, and pierces thy mold.
- Analyzes how the venerable woods-rivers that move40in majesty, and the complaining brooksthat make the meadows green. the golden sun,45the planets, all the infinite host of heaven,are shining on the sad abodes of death.
- Opines that the globe are but a handful to the tribesthat slumber in its bosom.
- Opines that the gay will laugh when thou art gone, the solemn brood of care, and each one as before will chasehis favorite phantom.
- Opines that in the full strength of years, matron, maid, speechless babe, and gray-headed man-70shall one by one be gathered to thy side, by those, who in their turn shall follow them.
- Narrates dickinson's poem, "because i could not stop for death" and "the carriage held but just ourselves."
- Narrates how they passed the school, where children strove, the fields of gazing grain, and the setting sun. the dews drew quivering and chill.
- Analyzes how death is compared and contrasted in "thanatopsis" and "because i could not stop for death."
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- Analyzes how emily dickinson's poem because i could not stop for death redefines the conflict between life and the peaceful eternity of death.
- Analyzes the use of alliteration in lines nine through twelve to emphasize the importance of what the speaker is trying to say.
- Analyzes how dickinson's use of personification in the poem helps contribute to the mood and overall beliefs of the speaker.
- Analyzes how the imagery used in the poem helps the reader picture death as a step into eternal life.
- Concludes that dickinson's "because i could not stop for death" is a poem describing life, death, and eternity all in one.
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- Analyzes how emily dickinson was different from the average woman during the 1800's. she lived a rare mysterious life.
- Explains that emily dickinson was born on december 10th, 1830, and raised in amherst, massachusetts, a quiet, peaceful town dominated by religion.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson didn't fit in with the rest of her family. her father was a successful lawyer, and her brother, austin, followed their father's footsteps.
- Explains that emily dickinson was an eager student who enjoyed learning and attending school. she attended mount holyoke female seminary in 1847, which was the longest time she spent away from home.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson secluded herself from the public world and refused to see many people. her sheltered life did not hinder her creativeness, like thoreau.
- Explains that emily dickinson wrote many poems that were depth in love even though she was never married. biographers have attempted to identify who these poems may be about, but have failed.
- Opines that emily dickinson began writing poetry as a teenager, but it is still unclear if she published any of her poems herself.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson's last ten years of her life before passing away were filled with tragedy and depression. she was buried in a white dress in amherst.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson's famous poem, "because i could not stop for death," describes the character encountering death, but instead of panicking or being sad, she is content with facing death.
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- Analyzes how emily dickinson uses death in her poetry and personifies it in unusual ways. she held the common puritan belief that a peaceful death indicated the state of one's soul.
- Analyzes how dickinson's portrayal of death as a suitor in "because i could not stop for death" is unusual, as is the metaphor for the passage into death.
- Analyzes how dickinson's poem "i heard a fly buzz when i died" sheds light on what she thought about death and its process.
- Analyzes how dickinson makes death a lover in the first example, showing that she wants to be with death. death is not elegant and gruesome, but it is real and part of the human experience.
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- Analyzes how emily dickinson's "because i could not stop for death" uses structure and rhetoric as concrete representation of her abstract beliefs about death to comfort and encourage readers into accepting death when he comes.
- Analyzes how dickinson organizes the lines into quatrains—stanzas containing four lines—to ordain a religious aspect into the poem.
- Analyzes how dickinson gives her poem a personality with her unique style integrated into the form and rhythm. the speaker rhymes "me", "immortality", and "eternity" to reinforce her description of life after death.
- Analyzes how the speaker uses symbolism for the carriage, house, horses' heads, school, fields, and sunset.
- Analyzes how the speaker personifies death as a courteous being, even gentlemanly. death is connotatively depicted as horrid, like the grim reaper.
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- Analyzes how the poem is almost explaining the feeling as someone would explain a headache that builds and builds until finally it becomes so intense that one could barely bare the pain.
- Analyzes how emily dickinson's poetry is intense and passionate. the reader can see vivid images of her ideas of death in her three death poems.
- Analyzes how dickinson's poem "i heard a fly buzz-when i died" shows the reader that everyone is sad and trying to accept her death.
- Analyzes the metaphor of life as a journey and the meeting of one's life passing before his eyes, from childhood, through maturity, to sunset.
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