Because I could not stop for death

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Because I could not stop for death

• Emily dickinson

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• Personally I extremly love this peom as it give
  me an insight of Dickinson's perception of
  "death". In this poem ,she did not speak sadness
  of death .and she aslo has any fear toward death
  .she exposes in her writting it is a natural
  prosess.

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• yes , death ,just like a carriage or a bus or a
  train which picks up passengers at designated
  stops , is a vihicle which picks you up wherever
  you are ,you do not wait for it ,because you
  don't want to take it .

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• But then you have no option.Death will definitely
  stop for you .He does not have to be harsh ,you
  are destined to be his passenger howerever
  unwilling you may be ,and also Dickinson accepted
  that death is invevitable and natural.

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• In this poem ,'death' is personified as a kind
  gentleman when state "he "and he has 'kindly stop
  'for the speaker.He and the speaker are moving in
  'carriage' slowly driving which emphasizes the
  tranquility of the whole process and she puts
  away he leisure and her labor just for his
  civility ,which means that the speaker just
  acceptes death light-headly.and the leisure and
  labor could

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• be her preoccupations of day to day life. They
  pass the 'school ' ,the 'recess' and ,the 'gazing
  grain' and 'the setting sun'.these images
  represent a peason's whole life .I was told that
  when a person is dying ,one looks back over his
  life lived if he has the time ,he see the
  especially happy times of his life .and that
  applies to this poem perfectly.In this poem
  'child in the school yard 'which suggests the
  childhood____carfree and innocent.'......the
  fields of gazing grain....'aduldhood___ripened.
  and finally,'the setting sun' old-age___frail
  and tranquil.

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• Lastly,I want to show my understanding of the
  last two stanzas .the horse has represent an
  animal of great value and I think Dickinson hopes
  that we ,human being should ,like this kind noble
  horse ,look forward to our lives positively until
  our death kindly stopped for us .In a complete
  sense of immortality and eternity.

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• Nowadays,we are too busy to be concerned about
  death in our lives,this is espcially true of we
  young teenagers.
• we feel that death is a long way off,yet ,when it
  comes to we have to stop,there is no choice. But
  no matter what is your opinion about death,please
  mark my words .you should be unwilling to spend
  your time in vain ,unwilling to let go even one
  single second without doing nothing. So ,please
  cherish you life and time .

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Thank you!