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Emily Dickinson wrote many poems about death. She seemed very comfortable with the thought of dying. One can see why she was so comfortable with death after reading "Because I Could Not Stop for Death". This poem treats the grave as inconsequential, death as not having mastery and immortality and eternity as the victors. Life and the grave are but paths to eternity and therefore are less important when viewed in the context of eternity.
Dickinson's poem consists of five stanzas of four lines. Each stanza displays a different view or group of perceptions. The first stanza is when Death stops for her; the second, she is observing Death as a person; the third, she sees the passages of life; the fourth, the grave; and the last stanza is a glimpse of an existence without time.
Scanning the poem we find alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter. This gives a tone of calm and doesn't detract from the subject but makes it all seem much more palatable than the subject of death......

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