Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Part I of Essay
For as long as history has been recorded and probably for much longer, man has always been at odds with the idea of his own death. Even those of us who have accepted death graciously, have at least in some way feared, dreaded, or attempted to delay its arrival. We have p ....

Part II of Essay
.... eternity. “The carriage held but ourselves and immortality.”(3) It is my opinion that the speaker in this poem exemplified the voice of all people. She ‘could not stop for death’ as none of us really believe we can or that we have the time. Most people die unexpectedly and are not ready to stop everything they have and want to do just to cease living. By riding with death, she fools herself into thinking that she is not dead. She has found immortality by riding along with death. Death does not come quickly. Rather, it arrives with a me ....