Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death Essay -- Emily Di

Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death In Emily Dickinsons Because I could non stop for Death (448), the speaker of the poem is a woman who relates about a situation after her remnant. The speaker personifies death as a polite and considerate humans who takes her in a carriage for a romantic journey however, at the end of this poem, she finishes her digression realizing that she has died mevery years ago. The poem contains six quatrains, and does not follow any consistent rhyme scheme. Every course of action starts with a strong thud and ends up with a weak beat. The first and third lines in all(prenominal) stanza have iambic tetrameter, but the second and fourth lines do not contain any consistent meter. The feet generate a rhythm the pastime way. Bevcause/ Iv could/ notV stop/ forv Death/Hev kind/lyv stopped/ forv me/This rhythm mimics the fit of horses hooves on the ground. Emily Dickinson correlates the speakers expression of her journey toward Eternit y-(l. 24) with horses hoofed feet in her allegory (Class note). In the first stanza, she begins her journey with a refined gentleman named Death who takes her in the carriage. Even though in the first line Because I could not stop for Death (l. 1), the poet gives us a principal of the speakers disappearance in the world, the speaker thinks that she is still alive. The poet chooses a special consideration Immortality (l. 4) to show that at the beginning of her journey the speaker is young and ...