Emily Dickinson s Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Outlook on Death in Dickinson’s â€Å"Because I Could Not Stop for Death† Death is considered by many to be the heartbreaking end of life; the moment when one is bound to hopelessness, to accept loss, and to accept the inevitable. As discouraging as this outlook on death may appear, it is captivating why Emily Dickinson preferred to make death one among the major themes of her poems. Because numerous poets of the 19th century wrote about death, Dickinson was not exceptional in picking this idea. However, she was exceptional when it was about how she wrote about death. Dickinson concentrated on Eternity and the â€Å"hereafter† part of death; she was positive and considered death as pleasant rather than as a dreadful end. Her pleasant outlook†¦show more content†¦Emily Dickinson in â€Å"Because I could Not Stop for Death† requires the phases of existence to consist of death and infinity. She refers to the unified features of the determinate and never-ending. From the perspective of infinity, Dickinson remembers happenings that took place periods ago, but so as to associate the infinite world to earthly standards, Emily Dickinson expresses that infinity elapse indeterminate time: â€Å"Since then—tis’ Centuries—and yet / Feels shorter than the Day† (21-22). Furthermore, she portrays death as a compassionate and courteous gentleman, and therefore does away with the terror from death. The integration of the physical universe with the superior one is noted in these lines: â€Å"The Dews drew quivering and chill- / for only Gossamer, my Gown- / My Tippet – only Tulle-† (14-16). Here, the poet’s earthly life, which lets her shudder as she relaxed by the ‘dews’, rages with the heavenly world, as the poet is clothed in a ‘gown’ and a cape (‘Tippet’) fabricated from ‘gossamer’, a spider web, and ‘Tulle’, some type of threadlike, open mesh temporal wrappers that indicate apparent, divine qualities. By remembering the various phases of existence on earth, the poet is in a position to reconcile her times on earth and perceive all these aspects from a superior consciousness, in both literal and figurative terms. Literal in that the wagon is going up to heaven; at that, the actual sight of the earth is unique, as noted in