Because_I_Could_Not_Stop_For_Death

Because I Could Not Stop For Death Because I Could Not Stop For Death The poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, expresses the speaker’s reflection on death. The poem focuses on the concept of life after death. This poem’s setting mirrors the circumstances by which death approaches, and death’s tone appears kind and compassionate. It is through the promise of immortality that fear is removed, and death not only becomes acceptable but welcomed as well. As human beings, we feel that death never comes at a convenient or opportune time. However, when death makes an appearance, it approaches bearing gifts of kindness, “Civility,” “And Immortality.” One can almost envision civility as being tall, dark, and handsomely dressed in a black tuxedo, arriving promptly, as any gentlemen would, to pick up his date for an evening out. Immortality also serves as a passenger in death’s “Carriage.” This signifies the miracle of life is our most precious possession and promises the gift of unending life, as shown by “The Carriage held but just Ourselves- / And Immortality” (lines 3-4). Immortality’s presence helps to remove all fears as we exit the physical world and provides the recipient with the necessary assistance to assure that the death, speaker, passed, immortality, life, time, speaker’s, quatrain, one, chill, becomes, journey, death’s, concept, welcomed, visible, verified, transition, therefore, stop, somehow, since, setting, realizes, rather, promises, promise, poem, phase, passage, now, never, makes, lines