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Analysis poetry about (Emily dickinson)
PART 1
Introduction
1.1 Back ground
    Analizing poetry is an activity which has concern many readers for many years. It is a     given assumption that it is wortwhile. We take that leap of faith because we have found that analiysing poetry enjoyabble and provocative mental exercise.
If you know anything about Emily Dickinson, it's probably that she was a reclusive poet from small-town Massachusetts who wrote tons and tons of poetry in the 1800s that wasn't published much until after her death. Oh, and that death and dying were among her favorit subject.
    We can add "Because I could not stop for Death," first published in 1862, to the list of Dickinson poems obsessed with the idea of death. In this particular poem, the speaker encounters death, yet the tale is delivered rather calmly. As a result, the poem raises tons of questions: Is the speaker content to die? Is this poem really about death, or does the idea of death stand in for something else? Fear of marriage perhaps? Is this a poem about faith?
    There probably isn't one person among us who hasn't considered what will happen after we die. This poem explores that curiosity by creating a death scene that's familiar to the living – something we can all imagine, whether we'd like to or not.
1.2 Complicate
How to analize poetry and understanding about the meaning of poetry
1.3 The purpose of analysis
    We should understand at the outset that poetry can be written for different reasons and therefore each poem has a different purpose. Some poem are written purely, to entertaint us , other solely for the purpose of moral persuation. We are urged perhaps to right action- or perhaps the wrong action. We are tempet-or to resist temptation. Many poems try to be both entertaining and intructive,both amusing and edifying at the same time. Whenever we analize a poem, we must consider, as abest we can , the purpose the poet had in writing it.

PART II
2.1 Text
Because I could not stop for Death: Text of the Poem
Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses’ Heads
Were toward Eternity –
2.2 Because I could not stop for Death Summary
    Death, in the form of a gentleman suitor, stops to pick up the speaker and take her on a ride in his horse-drawn carriage.
    They move along at a pretty relaxed pace and the speaker seems completely at ease with the gentleman. As they pass through the town, she sees children at play, fields of grain, and the setting sun. Pretty peaceful, right?
    As dusk sets in our speaker gets a little chilly, as she is completely under-dressed – only wearing a thin silk shawl for a coat. She was unprepared for her impromptu date with Death when she got dressed that morning.
    They stop at what will be her burial ground, marked with a small headstone.
    In the final stanza, we find out the speaker's ride with Death took place centuries ago (so she's been dead for a long time). But it seems like just yesterday when she first got the feeling that horse heads (like those of the horses that drew the "death carriage") pointed toward "Eternity"; or, in other words, signaled the passage from life to death to an afterlife.
Stanza 1
Line 1
Because I could not stop for Death –
    Dickinson wastes no time warming up in this poem. She immediately lets the reader know that the poem is going to be about death.
    "Because" is a clever way to begin. It immediately assumes the speaker is giving some sort of an explanation to an argument or to a question. This makes the poem seem active and alive, unlike many other poems, which sometimes take more of an observant position.
    Stating that she could not stop for death means that the speaker didn't have a choice about when she was to die. We've all probably heard something like this before. Even if not, Dickinson reminds us that it's not really up to us when we die.
    Dickinson capitalizes death, which is something she does often to nouns (sometimes without any reason). In this particular case she means to personify Death as a gentleman suitor who drives a horse-drawn carriage (personification means to give human characteristics or behavior to something that is nonhuman).
Line 2
He kindly stopped for me –
    And there it is – Death is a kind of a gentleman.
This line establishes the tone that most of the poem follows: one of calm acceptance about death. She's even going to enjoy the ride!
    This is also kind of a spoiler. We have pretty good reason to believe now, by just the second line, that the speaker is going to escape this one alive.
Line 3-4
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
    Pay attention to the line break here. Line 3 says it's just her and Death in the carriage, but line 4 complicates that by adding immortality. The break after "Ourselves" creates an "oh, wait!" moment and holds us in suspense until we drop down to line 4.
    Be careful interpreting the capitalized nouns. We established that Dickinson personifies Death to make him a real character, but in these two lines the capitalized words probably aren't supposed to be characters as well. Of course, it is a poem, so anything can happen. But, since Dickinson often capitalizes nouns, it's probably safe to consider that she capitalized "Carriage," "Ourselves," and "Immortality" more for emphasis than anything else.
Let's take a look at these three important words.
    By making "carriage" a proper noun (a capitalized noun), she makes it more specific and more important. In other words, it's not just any old carriage, it's her Death Chariot!
By "Ourselves" we can assume she means her and Death. The emphasis she places on the word also strengthens the relationship between the speaker and Death. It's almost like a foreshadowing, so we know something serious is going to happen between them.
    "Immortality" is the most complicated and interesting word of these three and certainly gets us thinking. Our first instinct might be to ask, "Wait, you're riding in a carriage with Death – don't you mean mortality?" So this is the first hint we get that the speaker doesn't think of death as The End, but as a step on the way to eternal life – an afterlife of some sort.
Line 5
We slowly drove – He knew no haste
•    "He knew no haste" is an old-fashioned way of saying Death didn't speed or hurry.
•    The shift from "We" to "He" in the same line is an important one. The "We" might allow the reader to think the speaker has some control over the pace, but Dickinson quickly reminds us that "He" is the one determining the relaxed progress and that the speaker's just along for the ride.
•    While we've already determined that the speaker is not afraid of Death, this slow pace still creates a feeling of drawn-out suspense in the poem and keeps us wondering what might happen.
Stanza 2
Line 6-8
And I put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For his Civility –
•    Lines 6-7 mean that she has given up work and free time (we might assume she's given up thinking about or worrying about them too).
•    Line 8 works a couple of ways. First, we can read "For" as "because of." So, she gave up thinking about work and play because Death is just so polite and charming that he distracted her from anything else.
•    Or, we can read the "for" as "in place of." So, similar to the first interpretation, she has given up the worries (work) and joys (leisure) of life in exchange for his graciousness. We might even guess that she is starting to feel more civil and social too.
•    Either way, the speaker seems pretty content with, if not a little gaga for Death.
•    If this were a first date, Death would be doing a pretty good job. She seems both happy and even a little impressed by his manners.
Stanza 3 Summary
Line 9-10
We passed the School, where Children Strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
•    Dickinson is painting a little scene of what they are riding by. If you've ever taken a hayride in a carriage in the fall, maybe you saw something like this too.
•    They see children playing in the schoolyard during recess.
•    This scene seems almost eerily normal. At first, we're in this strange scene with death that doesn't seem at all normal, then we're looking at something totally familiar. Why do you think Dickinson does this? Maybe you think the mixing of the unreal and real makes the poem seem even stranger. Or maybe you think it makes death and dying seem like just another ordinary part of life.
Line 11-12
We passed the Field of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –
•    More scene setting. They pass "the fields of […] grain" and "the setting sun." When she describes the grain as "gazing" maybe she thinks the thicker tops of the grain resemble heads, or perhaps that the grain seems to stand still and just look at the carriage as it passes.
•    The sun and field are much more general descriptions of the scene than the previous lines, yet might even have symbolic significance. The setting sun, for example, signifies the end of the day, but might also stand for the end of life. Ever heard of old people being in their twilight years?
•    We should also notice the repeated phrase, "We passed" (in poetry-speak, a repeated word or phrase throughout a poem is called anaphora). Here it works to mimic the slow progression of the carriage. You can almost hear the echo of clomping horse hooves in the repeated phrase. So instead of feeling like this poem is at a standstill, we're aware that it's moving forward. It almost allows us to be a part of their journey, not just outside observers.
Stanza 4 Summary
Line 13
Or rather – He passed Us –
•    Quite literally, the sun passes her because it falls below the horizon. But, reading a little deeper into it, Dickinson suggests that maybe that's what death is like – the sun, light, and warmth leaving you to the cold darkness that is death.
•    Dickinson uses personification again as she refers to the sun. Why do you think that is? It seems the farther along in the journey they get, the farther from the living world they get. There are no other people or animals and it's getting dark. It's a little spooky at this point.
•    The fact that the adjustment, "or rather," is made after the stanza break only enhances the spookiness. The long pause between stanzas allows us to notice that the poem is about to make a shift away from the sunny ordinary day into something more grave (pun intended).
Line 14- 16
The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –
•    "Gossamer" is used here to describe her gown as one of very thin and delicate material.
•    "Tippet" is an old-fashioned shawl or shoulder cape, and this one's made of "tulle," which is silky and thin like gossamer.
•    The dew of night is setting in because the sun has gone down. She's now getting chilly because she isn't wearing warm enough clothing. That thin tulle!
•    The fact that she is under-dressed for this journey also reflects that she is under-prepared. This stanza echoes what we discovered in the beginning line – this is not her choice and she was not planning this trip with Death.
•    Cold is something often associated with death in literature and in movies. Ever watch The Sixth Sense or read about the Dementors in Harry Potter books? So it's no coincidence that Dickinson is lowering the temperature on us here.
Stanza 5 Summary
Line 17-18
We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
•    If we were unsure before, these lines settle everything. The speaker is going to die. Death just led her to her burial spot!
•    Your first instinct when you read this might be to scream something like, "Run for your life, lady. He's going to kill you!" But let's not forget how at ease the speaker feels with Death and how calmly she's faced the whole experience so far.
•    The "we paused" marks the second stop in the poem. The first instance was the beginning of the journey when Death stops to pick up the speaker. So we might guess that this second stop could end their journey.
•    Using the word "House" to indicate the place of burial is a clever move by Dickinson. Instead of "grave" or "tombstone," which might stir up images of finality and death, she uses a word that we consider synonymous with "dwelling" or even "home." Ever heard someone call a gravesite the "final resting place"? This is a subtler way to say that.
•    "A Swelling of the Ground" eliminates any possibility that we might think this is not a grave. Think of a freshly-dug place where a dog hides his bone; even after he covers it up there is a little rise in the ground.

Line 19-20
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground
•    These lines continue to explain this burial house, but it gets a little tricky.
•    A cornice is the pointed part of the roof, and here it's in the ground. So if the highest part of house is in the ground, the rest of it must be too. Further grave evidence.
•    What part of this burial house can the speaker actually see? It's unclear, but she seems to know what it is and she's OK with it. There's no turning and running for it, as you might typically expect.

Stanza 6 Summary
Line 21-22
Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
•    Wait a minute – this happened ce Wait a minute – this happened centuries ago?! This really throws a wrench in the whole system.
•    The poem seems to be telling a recent memory, but this all actually happened a really long time ago. Meaning...yep, the speaker has been dead the whole time. Interesting.
•    "Feels shorter than the Day" is just an old-fashioned way of saying something like, "feels like just yesterday." So this memory remains vivid for the speaker.
Line 23-24
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity –
•    These final lines recall the very first time the speaker encountered the horse-drawn carriage and had a feeling that they were more than just regular horses – that they signified her journey to the afterlife.
•    Ending on the image of the horse heads is really smart of Dickinson, because they jut forward and it almost looks like they're pointing toward something. In this case, "Eternity."
•    It's also very bold of Dickinson to end on this image because this is the first we've heard of the horses, and suddenly she's asking them to hold up the most important moment of the poem.
•    The final stanza is full of surprising moments for the reader. We find out the speaker has been dead for years and we're introduced to (and left with) this striking image of the horses' heads pushing forward.
2.3 symbol of connotation analysis
Death
    OK, so death is not a new concept to us but Dickinson does a good job making it fresh and strange by having death take the form of a man. You might be tempted to think of the grim reaper, with his black cloak and dangerous-looking scythe (the curved sharp thing he's always carrying around), but, no, Dickinson's Death is a real smooth operator. He's the kind of guy who would hold the door open for his date and offer her his coat on a chilly night. Dickinson uses the character of Death as an extended metaphor to examine what real death might be like.
•    Lines 1-2: Death is introduced right away as the leading character and focus of the poem, performing a human action – stopping for someone on his way. If this were a play he'd be cast as the leading male role who gets a lot of lines. Substitute Death for any guy's name: "Because I could not stop for Tom – / He kindly stopped for me." Now, the beginning of this poem seems like the first meeting of two lovers. This personification of death as a male suitor continues throughout the poem. What does that say about the speaker's thoughts and feelings about death?
•    Line 5: Now that we've established Death as a human character who represents actual death, let's start making those connections every time he reappears in the poem. In this line we know that the character Death is driving along slowly. What might this action mean when we apply it to thinking about real death? Well, it's definitely not a quick death, like from a gunshot wound or a gory decapitation. Perhaps this could be something more similar to death from a long illness, or slowly dying of old age in one's sleep. Dickinson doesn't really say, but we can look at the evidence she does give us to make educated guesses.
•    Line 8: Further character development shows us that Death is polite and courteous. So if we were going to continue to relate this to the real thing, we'd probably come to the conclusion that this end wasn't too painful, and that the speaker (the one dying) didn't put up any struggle.
•    Line 9: The "He" (referring to Death) has now changed to "We." This might be a hint that the two have joined and that the speaker is actually dying.
•    Line 17: this marks the end of their journey, where death has brought her home. This might, in more literal term, mean that the speaker is no longer dying but is in fact dead, and laid to rest in her grave.
The Carriage
    The carriage in which Death and the speaker ride is a metaphor for the way in which we make our final passage to death. Or, on a more familiar level, it's pretty common for a hearse to carry a coffin to its grave. The carriage in this poem is the mode of transportation to the afterlife. We have to get where we're going somehow.
Lines 3-4: In line 3 we see that the carriage holds Death and the speaker. where we discover the carriage also holds "Immortality," another example of personification. This should really tip us off that the carriage is a pretty special vehicle that will carry the speaker to the next world.
The Sunset
…and the cold to follow. This might be the most obvious symbol in the poem. Dickinson is certainly not the first to use sunset as a symbol and foreshadowing of death. So she's in cheesy territory, but luckily Dickinson's a master and avoids cliché. Lines 12-13: The sun passes them, leaving the riders in spooky cold. Dickinson doesn't write it, but we can assume it's gotten dark too. Dark and cold certainly set the scene for death. What do you think it's like under the ground? So, we have to give Dickinson credit for using an age-old literary device – the sunset – and chucking the pastel-hued beach scene for something a little more original, and more chilling.
The house

    The speaker's last stop and final resting place. The house is a metaphor for the grave. Dickinson wants to enforce the idea that the speaker accepts and is comfortable with dying. She could have described the claustrophobic coffin, but she didn't. She chose a metaphor familiar to the readers to illustrate the calmness of the speaker.
•    Lines 17-20: The speaker can barely make out the house, since it's just a small rise in the ground. Maybe because she is just starting to understand that this house is going to be her grave. We tend to comprehend things better when they have personal significance. The description of the house is pretty limited and seems normal except for the fact that it's underground. Dickinson might keep the description vague on purpose. She wants to use the house as a symbol, but still wants it to make sense on a literal level.
The Horses
Lines 23-24: The speaker says the first hint that she was going to die was seeing the horses' heads (maybe even before she got in the carriage with Death). So what would make her feel that way? Well, first of all, there's a lot of room for "I had a feeling" in poetry. It's built on gut feelings, especially in Dickinson's poetry, but let's also think about what the image of a horse head looks like. Their heads are long and angled forward, perhaps like that.
2.4 Theme of because i couldn’t stop for death
Theme of Immortality
That's right, two opposite themes – Mortality and Immortality – occupy this poem. We find out that the memory of the speaker's death day is being told centuries into the afterlife. So, in this poem, Dickinson explores the idea of perpetual life. In this poem there is life after death, which offers an explanation as to why the speaker's so calm about everything. Death's not the end, just one step closer to eternity.
Theme of Spirituality
Well, the speaker is a ghost, which means Dickinson had to believe in some sort of life after death (and we do know that she grew up in a Christian family). But she leaves specific religious references out of the poem, and we don't know if the speaker is recalling the memory of her death from Heaven, Hell, or somewhere else; we only know that it's a place beyond this world.
2.5 What’s Up With the Title?
"Because I could not stop for Death" is actually not the title of this poem. Dickinson didn't title any of her poems, because she never meant to publish them. In collections, sometimes this poem is given a number, either 479 or (712). These numbers were assigned to the poems after Dickinson's death and indicate the order in which Thomas Johnson (1955 edition) and R.W. Franklin (1998 edition) think they were written. Nowadays, the Franklin number, which is not in parenthesis and appears first, is usually the more trusted.

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