Emily Dickinson's Because I Couldn T Stop For Death

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Because I couldn’t stop for death
Emily Dickinson’s “Because I couldn’t stop for death” was written in 1830 – 1886. The speaker of this poem is unannounced in the poem; however it is possible for the speaker to be Emily Dickinson, because it is written based on her beliefs and they’re all very personal and about her. She is a female poet. She uses me in this poem and speaks in her own perspective in first person point of view. The occasion of this poem is mostly on the process of death, whether it is her own death, the death of someone else, or death in general. Emily Dickinson had an extremely awful life that was so ringed by death. Emily’s life was open to death at a very young age and was highly depressed by the death of her friend and