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    This poem depicts Emily Dickinson's calm acceptance of death. In the poem, Death comes not as a frightening figure but as a gentleman who has come to pick her up in a carriage, similar to how a fiancé would arrive. She sees death as a natural and almost pleasant part of life, not something to be feared. The carriage ride also implies there is life after death, as another passenger mentioned is immortality. Overall the poem presents a vision of death being a natural part of an endless cycle, rather than something to dread.

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    This poem depicts Emily Dickinson's calm acceptance of death. In the poem, Death comes not as a frightening figure but as a gentleman who has come to pick her up in a carriage, similar to how a fiancé would arrive. She sees death as a natural and almost pleasant part of life, not something to be feared. The carriage ride also implies there is life after death, as another passenger mentioned is immortality. Overall the poem presents a vision of death being a natural part of an endless cycle, rather than something to dread.

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    Because I Could Not Stop For Death Theme

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    This poem depicts Emily Dickinson's calm acceptance of death. In the poem, Death comes not as a frightening figure but as a gentleman who has come to pick her up in a carriage, similar to how a fiancé would arrive. She sees death as a natural and almost pleasant part of life, not something to be feared. The carriage ride also implies there is life after death, as another passenger mentioned is immortality. Overall the poem presents a vision of death being a natural part of an endless cycle, rather than something to dread.

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    Because I Could Not Stop for Death

    Because I Could Not Stop for Death reveals Emily Dickinsons calm acceptance of death. !out !ein" so !usy #ith livin" that she didn$t have time to die% so death came to her. It came not as a monster% !ut as a "entleman in a carria"e&like her fianc'. (he notion of characteri)in" death as *kindly* and "racious is a po#erful reconceptuali)ation as opposed to the standard "loomy notion. +e kindly stopped is !oth a reassurance that his arrival #as not unpleasant. (his is a vision of death that is not fearful% !ut rather receptive to #hat is a#aitin" all life. In the process% a theme that arises is that one should not live their life in fear of death% !ut rather e,amine a life #here there is some notion of happiness #hen the inevita!ility of the carria"e *kindly* stops for all of us. nd there is one other passen"er in the carria"e #ith them - immortality. "ain% this is a reassurance that there is survival after death. Dickinson$s Christian vie# of eternity and the immortality of life are evident here. (he third stan)a "ives a picture of the .ourney. (he children and the school in the first line refer to early life. (he fields of ripenin" "rain in the third line refer to life$s middle sta"e. /inally% the settin" sun in the fourth line refers to the final sta"e of life. (he "rave or tom! is descri!ed in the fifth stan)a as a house. (hey stopped at a house or her "rave site. .+er description of the "rave as her house indicates ho# comforta!le she feels a!out death. She enters the house #ith the "ossamer "o#n #hich is more like a #eddin" dress representin" a ne# !e"innin" rather than an end. (he description indicates that the poet feels at ease #ith the location. (here after centuries pass% so pleasant is her ne# life that time seems to stand still% feelin" shorter than a Day. (he *horses$ heads* is a comforta!le alliteration and ties the vision !ack to the first stan)a. (he final #ord% *eternity* rhymes #ith *immortality* in the first stan)a. ......(he overall theme of the poem seems to !e that death is not to !e feared since it is a natural part of the endless cycle of nature. +er vie# of death may also reflect her personality and reli"ious !eliefs.

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