Death does seem to force the speaker to put away her “labour” and “leisure” and takes up her time, which she was reluctant to spend with him (7). In the end, we find that Death and Immortality are one in the same. By going through death, the speaker has gained immortality and completed her journey to “eternity” (24). We know this because the speaker states that it has been “centuries” since she met with death (21). There is also a tense change in the last stanza when she says it “feels shorter than the day” (22).
Because I Could Not Stop for Death Emily Dickinson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” tells the tale of Death calling upon the speaker as if he is a suitor. The speaker who is either to busy to stop, because she is living life, or because she sees death coming and is afraid. She accepts death as if he is a suitor coming to court and goes with him in the carriage. They are the only two in the carriage along with immortality who rides as a silent chaperone. Death drives slowly, going at his own pace perhaps, signifying how from the time a person is born they begin to die.
Because I could not stop for death In the poem “Because I could not stop for death”, by Emily Dickinson is describing her journey with death. The speaker personifies has been given human attributes. The death is personified as a gentleman, he’s calling on a young lady. In the opening stanza the speaker is too busy for death “Because I could not stop for death”, so death “he kindly stopped for me” and takes time to do what she cannot stop. In the second stanza “we slowly drove, he knew no haste” it suggests death has no hurry.
During the second and third stanzas one may see the speaker sort of longing to keep her life, which seems to make her envy the youth. In the second stanza the speaker talks about how they “slowly drove” and that Death “knew no haste” (Dickinson). One may pick up from this that the speaker is now focusing on what is going to happen in that moment rather than continuing to ignore that she is close to the end of her life, like she was doing before. In the third stanza the speaker tells how her and Death pass by the school where children are at play during recess (Dickinson). This obviously symbolizes youth, which is an age that is typically found far away from death; she may have referred to youth because she is longing to be young again so that she may continue living her life.
I would like to analyze the poem from a point of view as a female. The whole poem is a monologue of a woman, no ups and downs, however, calm and peaceful. A busy woman was invited by Death who is solicitous and polite to get on the carriage on a journey. Although she seldom left her home, she was glad to get on the carriage with a trace of hope and joy. Precisely, because of gentle manners of Death, the initiation of love appeared in her mind.
No matter how well, or for how long, she had prepared for the inevitable… when the inevitable did come, she realized she wasn´t prepared at all. The angel of death had arrived with no intentions of leaving alone. A final tear ran down Angela’s cheek, and it broke Autumn´s heart into a million bohemian crystal pieces. Through a one way glass and with a voiceless voice Angela said: - Good-bye piccola Autumn, my little earthly guardian angel. Take good care of yourself just like Mamma took care of you.
The narrator speaks of the day being blue and that can symbolize peacefulness. It is a good symbolism because the woman is passed on and has yet to figure this out. She is at such peace with the world that she hasn’t paid any mind to being dead. Another symbolism if death that was found in the short story were these lines, “The grass was yellow in the hot sunlight as she walked towards them. When she was quite close she called again, shyly: "Hello."
The choice to keep life and afterlife completely separate illustrates the contrast between what the speaker thinks of the woman while she is alive from when she is dead. This is also shown in the lines; “She seemed a thing that could not feel/ The touch of earthly years. (3-4), and “No motion she has now, no force;/ She neither hears nor sees,” (5-6). The complete difference in these lines shows the contrast from him believing she was immortal, to him seeing her as simply a dead, still thing now that she is dead. Also, the lines placement plays an important role in their meaning.
/ This is number three (Plath 21-22).” In the poem she describes the two previous attempts at killing herself when she says “The first time it happened I was ten. /It was an accident. /The second time I meant to last it out and not come back at all (Plath 35-38)”. She describes death as “an art” that she does “exceptionally well” (Plath 43-45). The narrator is clearly miserable with her life and considers suicide to be the only solution.
Her passing away was horrifying, and I would like to think that she is now in a better place. At the time I told my youngest sister that our grandmother is ‘cured’ from illness, her soul ‘rests in peace’ and ‘happy in heaven’, to make the experience less agonizing. Has this had a lasting effect on how you view death and do you think it would have been better for you and your sister not to have viewed your grandmother in a mortuary? Block 1 provides a number of euphemisms in our language to describe what happens after death. Mediums and Spiritualists use expressions as ‘crossing over’, ‘passing over’ or