Emily Dickinson was an introspective author who lived her insular life in her family's home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her immediate family was very important in her life. Her father who held education in high regard was a lawyer, a politician, and the treasurer of Amherst College. Her mother suffered periods of poor health and Emily often felt she was without a mother. In her late twenties, Emily began to withdraw from society. There has been muc

As her vision slips away, "the Windows failed," (1.15) her sense of hearing prevailed a bit longer than her sight. Having already "Willed my Keepsakes" (1.9) to others so she can move towards nature through death and begin the experience of death without her worldly possessions, Dickinson is able to expand the sense of death, not negatively, but certainly as a greater experience. The "Stillness in the Air" (1.3) is contrasted with "the Heavens of Storm" (1.4). Dickinson explores and presents the onlookers to this dead person, "the King/ Be witnessed-in the Room-" (1.7-8).

h speculation regarding her agoraphobia.1 Some critics feel she suffered emotional crises due to problematic love affairs with the Reverend Charles Wadsworth but, there seems to be no concrete evidence that this was true.2 The later years of Dickinson's life were tragically marked by the deaths of her closest friends: Emily's father died in 1874, Samuel Bowles in 1878, Holland in 1881, Charles Wadsworth, her love, Dickinson's mother in 1882, and her nephew in 1883.3 Her poetry from that period shows an obsession with death that has come to characterize Dickinson's work as a whole.

Dickinson has many images in this poem and she is able to transport the reader to the literal place of her description and then extend the imagery to a completely different level. She captures so vividly the essence of the death watch, "The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-" (1.5) with the wetness of tears of sadness through the people's view of the dead compatriot.9 In comparison to "Because I could not stop for Death," this poem tends to deal with a very short time-span, the exact time of death and its immediate impact. The other poem deals with the extension of one's soul after death into the afterlife. The wagon is a long-lasting image of constancy and points towards a long, slow journey.

The tone of this poem, "Because I Could Not Stop For Death," is a very positive one which treats death in an optimistic light. Death is compared to a wooer. The tone of congeniality and positiveness here becomes the metaphors for stating the proximity of death at the exit of ones life.5 Each stanza represents a different part of how death, such a sad and scary event for many, is portrayed so positively. Thus, Dickinson paints a picture of death through this woman's vantage point. Et

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