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Because I Could Not Stop for Death

In “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, she uses repetition and imagery to personify death.

è Spiritual importance of death. (emphasis and meter) -> archaic <- informal è Influenced by the transcendentalists -> but darker <-
 * S:** 6 Stanzas, 24 lines. Fixed, closed, Iambic. No end rhyme, some internal, some slant rhyme.
 * C:** consumed with death and possibly depressed. Live in New England. Gothic and transcendental concepts.
 * L:** alliteration: “gazing grans”, repetition (we), anaphora, no parallelism, and no paradoxes.

sound: none applicable.
 * I:** sight: “gossamer gown”, “fields of grazing grain”, “setting sun”.


 * F:** metaphors and symbolism -> PERSONIFICATION.

angle: Her perspective about death. Andy Garcia []
 * T:** topic: Dickinson’s way of showing a trip with/to death.