Post a response of at least 150 words.
• Identify a number of key images in the poem which you believe are vital to understanding it and provide a detailed discussion of how those images function in the poem.
• Do the images work together to form a coherent pattern?
• What ideas or feelings are conveyed by the images the author has selected?
• How do they contribute to the overall meaning of the poem?
Remember to provide evidence for your claims in the form of excerpts (a word, phrase, or line, as appropriate) from the poem.
Quotations, paraphrases, and summaries used in the assignment should be arranged according to APA rules of style, and in-text and reference citations should be provided, also formatted in APA style. Quoted material should not exceed 25% of the document.
Emily Dickinson: BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH (about 1863)
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
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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Since then - ‘tis Centuries - and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity.