Life
In Emily Dickinson's, "Bbecause I could not stop for Death? the speaker personifies death as a polite and considerate gentleman (which is very ironic because by many people death is believed to be a dreadful event) who takes her in a carriage for a journey "ttoward Eternity?(l. 24); however, at the end of this poem, she finishes her expedition realizing that she has died many years ago.
In the first stanza, she begins her journey with a gentleman named Death who takes her along to the carriage "the carriage held but just ourselves? (l.3). Even though in the first line, the poet suggests of the speaker's disappearance in the world (death, the event that takes life away, has being personified into a human form and is taking Dickinson away again as "the carriage held but just ourselves? suggests), nevertheless the speaker believes that she is still alive. With the use of the term "Imortality?(l. 4) the poet shows that at the beginning of her journey the speaker is young and......
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