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Because I could not stop for Death – (479)  BY EMILY DICKINSON

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Because I could not stop for Death – (479)  BY EMILY DICKINSON

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Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –

The Dews drew quivering and Chill –

For only Gossamer, my Gown –

My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity –

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 3. What images does the poet use? How do the images relate to one another? Do these images form a unified pattern (a motif) throughout the poem?

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 3. What images does the poet use? How do the images relate to one another? Do these images form a unified pattern (a motif) throughout the poem?

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The imagery used in the poem helps readers to imagine how the writer is thinking. "We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –We passed the Setting Sun –" The setting sun is usually the end of a day, and in this poem, it relates because of the discussion of death. Passing things he had once experienced.

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 4. What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem?

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 4. What figures of speech are used? How do they contribute to the tone and meaning of the poem?

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Imagery:
We passed the fields of Gazing grain-
We we passed the setting Sun.

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1. What is the poem’s tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is the poem ironic?

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1. What is the poem’s tone? Which words reveal this tone? Is the poem ironic?

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The poets tone seems to be a sense of serenity even when knowing what was following or what is to come. In stanza 3 lines 12-16 it says "we slowly drove- He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility". They pass by many places slowly and she seems to have given up and just take the gesture. It's also ironic because they contrast death and immortality.

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 6. What is the theme (the central idea) of this poem? Can you state it in a single sentence? Elaborate on your idea.

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 6. What is the theme (the central idea) of this poem? Can you state it in a single sentence? Elaborate on your idea.

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The central idea of the poem is the pov of immortality waiting for death. In the first stanza says it all, "Because I could not stop for Death - He kindly stopped for me - The Carriage held but just Ourselves - And Immortality." lines 1-6.  The one who is accompanied by immortality waits to pick her up and take her personally.