Because i could not stop for death
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Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" is narrated by a woman who has died and is taken on a carriage ride by Death. Death kindly stops to pick her up and they slowly and leisurely drive past familiar places as she leaves behind her labor and leisure. They pause before a house that seems to be sinking into the ground, representing her burial. Though centuries have passed, the experience seems shorter than the day it first occurred, when she realized the horses were heading toward eternity.
Because i could not stop for death
- 2. Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson
- 4. Because I Could Not Stop For Death He Kindly Stopped For Me
- 7. The Carriage Held But Just Ourselves
- 11. We Slowly Drove
- 13. He Knew No Haste
- 15. I Had To Put Away My Labor
- 17. And My Leisure, Too For His Civility
- 19. We Passed the School, Where Children Strove At Recess in the Ring
- 21. We Passed the Fields of Grazing Grain
- 23. We Passed the Setting Sun
- 25. Or rather He passed us
- 27. The Dews drew quivering and chill
- 29. For only Gossamer, my Gown
- 31. My Tippet only Tulle
- 33. We paused before a House that seemed
- 35. A Swelling of the Ground
- 37. The Roof was Barely Visible
- 39. The Cornice in the Ground
- 41. Since then tis Centuries and yet
- 43. Feels shorter than the Day
- 45. I first surmised the Horses Heads
- 50. Why is Death personified as a gentleman, a lover? Why is Death dramatized as a date, a rendezvous? How does this poem prompt you to think and feel about your own death?