‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ EMILY DICKINSON ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ 1. Emily Dickinson, American poetess 2. ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ from ‘The Chariot’ 3. Because I Could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality 1He – Death 2Ourelves – Death and the poet 3Immortality – Endless life, Eternal life

--Death, poet and Immortality, their carriage ride to eternity. 4. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My 4labor, and my leisure too, For his 5Civility. 4Labor – Job 5Civility – Politeness --Slow movement of the carriage. 5. We Passed the School where Children Played At wrestling in a ring; We passed the held’s of grazing grain We passed the setting sun.

--Death carriage passes the school, the grain held’s and The setting sun, Symbolic description of childhood, youth and old age. 6. We paused be fore a house that seemed A 6Swelling of the ground’ The roof was scarcely visible, The 7Cornice but a 8mound 6 Swelling of the ground – the mound on the grave 7 Cornice – top of the grave 8 Mound – small will

--Vision of life after death, a timeless and deathless world. Stopped before a house, symbolic of the grave 7. Since then this centuries; but each Feels Shorter then the day I first 9Surmised the horses heads Were toward eternity 9 surmised – guessed --Vision of life after death, a timeless and deathless world. 8. Highly connotative and symbolic style. Exercise – what is the theme or central idea of the poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ ? How is it Conveyed?