Because I Could Not Stop For Death Analysis

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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death," by Emily Dickinson is a poem about death. This poem shows the deceased narrator reminiscing about the day Death came calling on her. She entered into a carriage with Death and Immorality, which showed her life from beginning to end--passed through her childhood, maturity, and grave. It showed how the narrator did not have time to enjoy her life because she was too busy, so Death gave her that last glimpse of the life she did not seem to have time to enjoy. This poem used tone, imagery, metaphor, and personification. The theme indicates that our days are counting down and we are all on a carriage drawn by death that it is pulling us towards our eventual death and eternity, one day at a time.
The tone of "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" is the narrator's attitude through the subject, which is that the tone is a literary compound of composition, which shows the attitude toward
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The metaphor is a figure of speech which makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated but share some common characteristics. One example of a metaphor can be found in the first stanza with the carriage. The carriage was a metaphor of life's journey that ended in death. The metaphor showed one's passing from life into their death. Another example of a metaphor in this poem was the house. Dickinson used the house to represent the afterlife. She compared the afterlife to a dwelling place that was submerged in the ground, which is metaphorically representing a tombstone.
Personification is one of the most noticeable literary devices used in this poem. Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea, or an animal is given human attributes. Death is one example. The narrator described death as a person driving a carriage. Another example of personification would be Immorality because she described him as a passenger on the carriage