A Kind Death
“Because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson is one of the many poems that she has wrote in her lifetime. This poem however is a fixed form piece written in iambic pentameter alternating with iambic trimeter. The poem is written in six quatrains at four lines a piece. She also uses a ABCB rhyme scheme. We must remember that Dickinson is not dead but the speaker of this poem is. The poem is about death as it is implied in the title but this poem is not dark like some death poems. Dickinson uses many examples of alliteration, imagery, and it only starts out with the ABCB rhyme scheme in “Because I could not stop for death”.
The first stanza of the poem contains examples of personification and imagery. The first two lines of them poem start out “Because I could not stop for death- /He kindly stopped for me.” As my understanding when has death ever been kind to anyone? I also see her as busy person because of these two lines. She was so busy......
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