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  • Essay / Because I Couldn't Stop to Die - 619

    Because I Couldn't Stop to Die is proclaimed to be Emily Dickinson's most famous poem. This poem reveals Emily Dickinson's calm acceptance of death. She portrays Death as a gentleman who surprises her with a visit. Emily illustrates everyday scenes in a life cycle. While his metaphors explore death in an imitable way, his lines often contain as much uncertainty as meaning. Life and death are only paths to eternity and are considered less important when viewed in the context of eternity. Emily Dickinson's poem Death is about a gentleman who takes a woman for a drive. Because I could not stop to die, he kindly stopped for me” (Dickinson 1-2). Emily describes being a busy woman, dealing with everyday situations. When it comes to dying, no one schedules a time or date to die; what Emily identifies as a tragic event results in a chance experience. Emily writes, “The car held only ourselves and immortality” (3-4). Emily describes her ride with death, but associates a third horseman, Immortality. “Davidson does not emphasize what is acquired after death; it emphasizes what is lost through death” (Privatsky 35). Emily's third passenger has a wide variety of interpretations. Normally we don't think about death, but Emily's approach to death is similar to that of immortality. My point is that Emily is interpreting her belief in a soul that does not die but lives until eternity. “The idea of ​​immortality is confronted with the fact of physical disintegration. We are not told what to think; we are told to look into the situation” (Tate 26). In Dickinson's words, he drove slowly, without hurrying (5-6). Emily describes a slow, relaxing pace toward an unknown destination. Along the way, she enjoys the peaceful scenes. “We passed the school, where the children were striving, at recess – in the ring –” (Dickinson 9-10). Emily reflects on her past, this can also be seen as the beginning of a cycle of life. Emily then goes on to say, “We have passed the contemplative grain fields” (11). The expression she decides to use is apt because she is not the observer, but she is the observed. At this point, she goes on to describe "Setting Sun-" as the final scene of her ride. These three images suggest phases of the life cycle that the speaker has gone through and is going through and tell us about her experience… Time has stopped for her, and it is the grain fields that are looking at her, not her. » (Semansky 34-35).