1. ‘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

2. --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.

3. --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

4. --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?