Because I could not stop for death- by Emily Dickinson

Speaker: Tim, Sunny, Mia

Emily Dickinson

• Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.[2]

LATER LIFE

• In 1886, Dickinson was diagnosed as having Bright’s disease, a kidney dysfunction that resulted in her death in May of that year.

THEME

• Because I could not stop for death is about a dying woman being ridden by the gentleman----death. Death rides her through the School, where Children strove at Recess in the Ring, the Fields of gazing grain, the Setting sun. Finally, they got to the House, which is actually the grave. The writer encourages us not to be afraid of death.

ANALYSIS*1

ANALYSIS*2

• School stands for childhood.• Gazing Grain stands for adulthood.• Setting Sun stands for later life.• The fourth stanza is talking about the setting

sun passing the speaker. The setting sun means the life is going to end. So the speaker feels cold because she is dying.

ANALYSIS*3

• 5th stanza• Died.• House symbolizes

Grave.• The structure of coffin

Death VS. Eternity

Death :

• A taboo• Horrible• Hopeless• The end of life

Eternity

• Abstract• Forever• Universe• Contrast to death

DEATH = ETERNITY

• We will finally realize that DEATH is similar to ETERNITY .

• Since life is just like a circle, death is just a part of life, a part of stage of life.

• Time and life are forever lasting. Even though we die, time stills works and life will become eternity.

• The writer tries to tell us not being afraid of death and encourage us to slow down and enjoy life.

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