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- Meaning
- “Because I could not stop for Death”is a six stanza ballad written by Emily Dickinson, and has an ABCB rhyme scheme, and presents true rhymes, like “me/immortality” (first stanza). The poem is written in quatrains (4 lines each stanza) in iambic (unstressed/stressed) meter, the first and third lines of the stanzas are iambic tetrameter.
- Imagery
- The speaker is portraying death as a man, making a personification of it. And this man is in a carriage with her, on a long journey through all the places she supposedly went in life. We can say that the carriage in this situation is an allusion to life, and death is portrayed as a reality that has always walked side by side with life, from its first moments until the end.
- Language
- At the end of life. The carriage has stopped moving, and now is the beginning of the journey to immortality, where life is no longer the main player in the life of the speaker, and this role is assumed by death.
- Effect
- The dominant images in the poem are Auditory, tactical, and vision. The third stanza “in the Ring” is a reference to the sound of the school bell- Auditory sense. Third stanza the speaker says “The Dews drew quivering and Chill” represent the tremble of the dew- Tactile sense. In the fifth stanza, we have this line “A Swelling of the Ground”, representing the bad condition of the soil which was visible- Visual sense.
- The very language in the poem is calm, meant to reflect how the speaker was feeling. She remains calm when Death arrives, and the rhythm like a ballad contributes to this feeling of calmness. The speaker is talking about Death but describing scenarios that involve the circle of life, like the school representing childhood, the fields, showing the ripening of adulthood, and at the least, the “Setting Sun” giving an idea of the end of life.
- The speaker’s tone shows peace, rest, and regret at the same time, and in a symbolic and intense way, the speaker provokes the reader to think about the rush of life and all the things that get in the way of living it in the fullest, and it also makes us think to have another perspective on life and live in a kinder and calmer manner, in the function of being able to observe and enjoy the little things that are around us during our journey.
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