1. “Dear boy, hit just wadn’ his time to die,” Miss Looly said softly. “S’pose it wadn’ his time to die but it was that trestle’s time to fall? Her sister breathed, touching my cheek. “Or what if it was that train engineer’s time to die?
The first stanza ends with the short line, “and immortality,” which means that they are most likely thinking about living forever in Heaven. This solidifies the point that she has passed. The second stanza starts with “We slowly drove—He knew no haste.” This tells the reader how death is slowly taking her like a carriage in a funeral procession where the hearse travels slowly. This line is ambiguous as well. Death takes his time as she reviews her memories.
She is near death, which is characterized by the dark wind. The poem’s only break comes on line ten. “But what?” This line is the question that leads to the old lady’s demise. It is the simple, yet astounding thought that makes the poem so dramatic. The reader is lead to the conclusion of the life of an old lady.
The speaker plays an important role in the poem in that he/she is the one who has or is facing death. The first line “Because I could not stop for death-” is a clear indication that everything is happening to the speaker, and one can assume that the speaker is already dead. After reading the whole poem, the reader realizes that the speaker has in fact been deceased for centuries, and is merely reflecting on what happened on the day of their death. The speaker also relates the story of her death in a very casual way, conveying the message that it was a rather pleasant and normal experience. The setting of the poem is also an important factor in the poem.
Michelle Seeley Dr. Atkins English comp II Dickenson Analysis “Because I Could not Stop For Death” In the poem “Because I Could not Stop For Death”, by Emily Dickenson, the narrator talks about death coming to meet her because she was too busy to stop for him. In the first stanza, the narrator talks about the carriage ride and how the carriage’s only occupants are the narrator and death himself, as they ride off to immortality. I feel like she is talking about leaving behind all of her worldly possessions, including her body, and going to a place that is far away. When in the second stanza the narrator says; “we slowly drove-he knew no haste”, she is talking about not having to rush to be anywhere, time no longer matters; “And I had put away my labor and my leisure too.” Death is a gentleman caller taking the narrator on a ride with no time limit, but a specific destination. The narrator talks about seeing her life as they drive on; “We passed the school where, children strove, at recess-in the ring-“in this statement she talks about seeing her childhood and the carefree times that children share.
The “mystic shape did move” as it draws Elizabeth Barrett Browning “backward by the hair”. Death has become so prevalent that It was given its own voice, which was more than most women were even allowed this is portrayed when he whispers “Guess now who holds thee”.The presiding role of mortality shows the personification of death and portrays the attitude towards death as mere expectance. Death is seen to be the end of all things, within “The Great Gatsby” we see how this portrayed to reflect the materialism of the lives they were living. . At the end of the book we see Gatsby, Myrtle and George are all dead, and there is no obvious revival.
Student Name Professor English 102 26 October 2012 A Ride with Death An Analysis of “Because I could not stop for Death” In Emily Dickinson’s poem dated around 1863 “Because I could not stop for Death,” the speaker is riding in a carriage with death and immortality to eternity. The speaker is reserved, polite, and unafraid of her companions in the carriage with her. Death is a gentleman in this poem, “Because I could not stop for Death/=He kindly stopped for me –“. Emily Dickinson experienced a lot of death in her lifetime. In the time in which Emily Dickinson was alive and writing this poem, the mortality rate was high.
The idea is communicated throughout the poem that not only people are beautiful, but also that nature possesses just as much beauty. The speaker uses metaphors to talk about death in his own perspective. The speaker discusses death from his own point of view, “Her hardest hue to hold” (2). By talking about her own death, the speaker shows the reality of death. The speaker shows the brutality of death.
Dallas Boggs Storm Warnings Analysis Essay “How with a single purpose time has traveled by secret currents of the undiscerned.” The poem “Storm Warnings” indicates that the speaker is waiting for death. She ,the narrator, waits for death throughout the poem, waiting for its cold hands around her beating heart. The speaker uses words and phrases that give off a sense of death when I read it. This is conveyed through Rich’s use of tone, a theme of fate, and a message of mortality. In the first stanza, fourth line it says “of grey unrest moving across the land.” This could be interpreted as death itself, creeping up on her to take her precious soul away.
I will be discussing the way Dickinson explores the theme of death and how death and its relating subjects are portrayed in a number of poems namely poem 712. In poem 712 the speaker almost seems to be describing her first date. The unusual thing is though the date is death. The speaker and death travel in a carriage with immortality as a chaperone, as was the custom of the time, to different places from a school to her grave representing her passage in life. At the end of her journey we realise she has already died and is speaking from the afterlife.