Because I could not stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson Essay -- Emily D

Because I could non stop for stopping point, A Poem of both(prenominal) Marriage and DeathWhen thinking of both marriage and expiry, the word infinity comes to mind. Marriage is looked at as a symbol of eternal love, and death is looked at as a state of eternal rest. Also, Christians consider tone after death as an eternal state. In Because I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson portrays death by describing an eternal marriage. On the veridical level, the verbaliser remembers a time where she was carried off and eloped with a man called Death and his partner in crime, Immortality. Not realizing that going with Death meant that she would have to go away this world and live with him in his house forever, she shows herself as being callow at that time. As she leaves to go with Death the speaker states, We slowly setHe k tonic no haste/And I had put away/My crowd and my leisure too, /For his Civility--. In these lines, she shows how she must leave her household to wo rk for her new husband. On the way to Deaths house they passed the school, where Children strove/At suspensionin the Ring. The fact that she mentions the kids fighting and playing at happy chance also shows how she must leave her disembodied spirit of leisure for a life of work. She must go work for her husband Death at his household. The adjoining quatrain is when the speaker finally realizes that she is leaving this world to join Death in his world. She states, We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain/We passed the Setting Sun/Or kind ofHe passed Us. The next lines also show how she is leaving her world into another, colder environment. The speaker says The Dews drew quivering and chill/For only Gossamer, my Gown/My Tippetonly Tulle. The raiment and scarf that she had worn f... ...hyme scheme follows an ABCB pattern. By that I mean that the twinkling and last lines of every quatrain rhyme. This makes the poem flow well but not as fast as a poem with an ABAB rhyme sch eme. some other technique I noticed was that Dickinson capitalizes the first letter of some crucial words in the lines to make the reader emphasize them as he or she reads. For example in the line We passed the school, where Children strove/At Recessin the Ring/We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain/We passed the Setting Sun/Or ratherHe passed Us, the reader must emphasize the words that argon capitalized to get the effect of a slower poem. This poem was a computable example of what marrying Death would feel like. Since no one has really died and came backrest to tell us how it feels, Dickinson does a good job of showing death from the perspective of a dead person or immortal soul.