Death in Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death, I Heard

Death in Emily Dickinsons Because I Could not Stop for Death, I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died, and I Felt A Funeral In My dispositionEmily Dickinsons poems Because I Could Not Stop for Death,I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died, and I Felt A Funeral InMy Brain all deal with one of lifes few certainties, death.Dickinsons intense curiosity towards mortality was present inmuch of her work, and is her legacy as a poet.Because I could Not Stop for Death is one of Emily Dickinsonsmost discussed and famous poems due to its ambiguous, and uniqueview on the popular subject of death. Death in this poem is toldas a womans last trip, which is headed toward eternity. This poemhelps to characterize and bring death down to a more personallevel. Different from the more popular views of death beingbrutal and cruel, Dickinson makes death seem passive and easy.The theme of the poem being that death is natural and unstoppablefor everybody, but at the same time gravid comfort that it isnot the end of a souls journey. The indorser can recognize thepoems theme by analysing its voice, imagery, figures of speech,form, diction and especially symbolism all of which help thereader to understand the poems meaning. The precise form thatDickinson uses passim the poem helps convey her message tothe reader. The poem is indite in five quatrains. The way inwhich each stanza is written in a quatrain gives the poem unity and makes it easy to read. Because I Could Not Stop for Death starts to gives the reader a feeling of forwardmovement throughout the second and third quatrain. For example, inline 5, Dickinson begins deaths journey with a slow, forward movement,which can be seen as she writes, We... ...ngs are supposed to go when we die. Or we salutary assume that wewill experience a peaceful extinguishment of life. The persona of thesepoems signifies that, even though we might have plans about the end,death is uncontrollable and unimaginable.Death is the independent unknown Mankind naturally fe ars what is unknown.Emily Dickinson is no different. Her works Because I Could Not StopFor Death, I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died, and I Felt A Funeral In MyBrain all explored the subject of death. She was naturally scared of thethought of dying and explored many of the great questions in her poetry.Is on that point a Heaven or an afterlife? If you kill yourself will you stillgo to heaven? Is it your fate when you die? These are just some of thequestions that hoi polloi have asked themselves, and because Emily Dickinsonis deceased, she now knows all the answers.