Question

Because I could not stop for death,

he kindly stopped for me;

the carriage house but just ourselves

And Immortality
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,

and I had put away

my labor, and my leisure too,

For his civility.

We passed the school where children played

At wrestling in a ring;

We passed the fields of days in grain,

We passed the settling sun.

We pause before a horse that seemed

Is swelling of the ground;

The roof was secretly visible,

the cornice but a mound.

since then ‘t is centuries; but each

Feels shorter than the day

I first surmised the horses’ heads

Were towards eternity.




Describe some general characteristics of Dickinson‘s poetry write a 2-4 sentence response

Answer 1

In This particular poem of dickenson, he describes loss and the feeling of it before death. After death, it all just goes by so quickly when you have nothing to live for anymore. Now he has to deal with an eternity of this.