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    Because I Could Not (1863)

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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet who wrote during the American Civil War. She was influenced by the Bible, Shakespeare, and other writers, but developed a highly original style. Her poetry focused on themes of death, love, and nature. She wrote short poems in quatrains without titles, using monosyllabic words and unconventional punctuation. Her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" describes being taken on a ride by Death through a village as the sun went down, stopping at a strange house, understanding it was a journey towards eternity.

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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet who wrote during the American Civil War. She was influenced by the Bible, Shakespeare, and other writers, but developed a highly original style. Her poetry focused on themes of death, love, and nature. She wrote short poems in quatrains without titles, using monosyllabic words and unconventional punctuation. Her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" describes being taken on a ride by Death through a village as the sun went down, stopping at a strange house, understanding it was a journey towards eternity.

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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet who wrote during the American Civil War. She was influenced by the Bible, Shakespeare, and other writers, but developed a highly original style. Her poetry focused on themes of death, love, and nature. She wrote short poems in quatrains without titles, using monosyllabic words and unconventional punctuation. Her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" describes being taken on a ride by Death through a village as the sun went down, stopping at a strange house, understanding it was a journey towards eternity.

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    Because I Could Not (1863)

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    Emily Dickinson was an American poet who wrote during the American Civil War. She was influenced by the Bible, Shakespeare, and other writers, but developed a highly original style. Her poetry focused on themes of death, love, and nature. She wrote short poems in quatrains without titles, using monosyllabic words and unconventional punctuation. Her poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" describes being taken on a ride by Death through a village as the sun went down, stopping at a strange house, understanding it was a journey towards eternity.

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    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

    Her poetry
    writes during American Civil War
    influenced by the reading of the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, the Metaphysical poets and contemporary
    writers such as Emily Bronte and Robert Browning but highly original
    antithesis of his contemporary Walt Whitman
    rebellion against the Victorian tendency to exploring the world
    interested in spiritual experience
    forerunner of contemporary poetry

    Main themes
    obsession with death
    love, explored through a wide range of emotions
    nature: the speaking voice becomes part of the nature (animal, blade of grass, etc.)

    Death
    Death from the point of view of:
    -the person dying
    -a witness
    Death: the great mystery, connected with eternity, a liberation from anxiety.
    Death: the place where the human being tends towards, in order to become one with the universe.

    Style
    short poems, organized in quatrains
    no title
    monosyllabic words
    terms from various sources: law, geometry, engineering
    syntax is often obscure
    variety of rhetorical devices: alliterations, assonances, imperfect rhymes, metaphors, etc.
    punctuation: extensive use of dashes

    Because I could not (1863)


    1. Death kindly stopped to visit the speaker
    2. . The speaker had to give up what she was doing
    3. . Death and the speaker rode through the village
    4. . The sun went down and the weather was cold
    5. . They stopped at a strange house
    6. The speaker understood she was riding towards eternity

    There is no rhyme scheme, the poet breaks away from the conventions of poetry
    It is characterized by the lack of conventional punctuation, but for the dash which breaks the line
    In this way Dickenson emphasises certain words and highlight the emotions
    The repetition of ‘We passed’ creates a sort of trance-like atmosphere and conveys the sense of
    inevitability of the journey towards eternity
    Death is personified
    The grave is connoted like a house
    The idea of the last journey is connected with the concept of another life in eternity; at the same time, it is
    contrasted with the idea that life on earth will continue around us even after our departure

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