English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Emily Dickinson
3 Apr 2016
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Wrote i could not stop for death in the 1860"s. Published fewer than 12 poems but had written over 1800. Was known as the myth in her later years she rarely left her house. Death is represented as kind and civil. Implies this carriage has come for her to take her on a ride. Death personified 3 spots in the carriage: death, speaker. Implying death and immortality both come for us. Death is not in any hurry we are already in the helm of eternity, there is no haste. For his civility implies that her relationship with death is civilized. Speaker believes they should give death the respect he is due. Referring to the sun as a sense of time. He passed us the sun is a part of time; the temporal world. A swelling of the ground the buried body. The roof was scarcely visible tombstone. The cornice referring to the inside of the coffin.
