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The certainty of death and the uncertainty hour of death are sources of grief
through human’s life. Death brought consternation feeling to many people because of its
unpredictable arrival; many people except Emily Dickinson. She demonstrated her
sentiment for death in a total distinctive aspect. “Because I could not stop for Death”
poem conveyed Emily Dickinson’s sanguine perspective on the progress facing death and
“Because I could not stop for Death” is one of the greatest poem in the English
literary; it is flawless to the last detail. Emily painted a precise picture, not merely
beautiful but inevitably blended with important message. Every stanza extends and
emphasizes her thoughts, her feelings about unceasing approach of death. At first stanza,
death is not an abstract concept but a personification as she wrote “He kindly stopped for
me” and “the Carriage held but just Ourselves”. Death greets the speaker as her groom;
he “kindly” picks her up extravagant in a carriage perhaps because death comes with
eternal salvation “and Immortality”. They go on together with unhurried pace, without
any “haste”. As the speaker’s journey with death, he takes her through variant events: her
childhood, her adulthood, and finally, her day of death as signaled in third stanza:
physical maturity and “Setting Sun” symbolizes on set of old age. Emily applies the
usage of anaphora upon repeated words “We passed the” to significant the usual phrases
of human’s life. In stanza four, the speaker experiences “quivering” because of the “chill”
is giving readers the note that she is not warmly dressed. In fact, her garments are more
appropriate for a wedding: she had “Gown”, her “Tippet” only “Tulle”. Those clothes
are representing a new beginning, other than a funeral or the end, but indeed portraying a
new life. The speaker objectified the terror of death; she is ready to accept it. She puts
aside all her “labor” and “leisure”, there is nothing to hold her back anymore, she feels no
remorse. Her description the grave as her “House” indicates how comfortable she feels
about death. The last stanza contents paradox to accentuate on immortality; even though
after centuries pass, so delightful is her new life that time has no motion, those times of
her earthly life is “Feeling shorter than the Day”. The framework of the poem is, in fact,
the two abstractions, eternity and mortality, which are made to affiliate the painted
The overall message of the poem might seem to imply that death is not to be
feared since it is natural part of the endless cycle nature. That is not all of it; her
unsurpassed devote statement is hidden in the last stanza. Why did she pair “Horses’
Heads” with the word “Eternity”? This clear reference of Scripture further supports
Emily’s eternal message: in both book of Zechariah and Revelation, horse are mentioned
as deliverers of fire, smoke, and sulfur destroy mankind when Christ returns. Emily takes
on this eternal perspective regarding her life by believing in God. Though these horses
described in the book of Revelation have not yet been seen today, Emily believes that this
will occur at the end times with only evidence being that it is written in the Scriptures.
“Because I could not stop for Death” reflects Emily’s personality and religious belief.
She was optimistic about her ultimate fate and appeared to see death as a new beginning.
“Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson is the most enigmatic
poem. The two elements of her poem are the aspect of death and the perception of an
afterlife. Emily’s conclusive message convey a valuable view about death, it is simply a
concept mankind cannot comprehend, people should never be afraid of it, but rather