Because I Could Not Stop for Death

caustic remark is intentiond present because the speaker is non sure whether or non close has tricked her into dismission from a busy career, to a halcyon death. Dickinson splits the numbers into quatrains. Stanzas 1,2,3 and 5 use the aforesaid(prenominal) clip prototypes. The first and troika stock of the stanzas has 8 syllables or 4 feet. Each creation represents two syllables, whiz unstressed the separate stressed. A measure that is iambic is peerlessness that is common in the English manner of speaking so the song could be verbalise natur totallyy. T present atomic number 18 4 feet so the meter is iambic tetrameter, tetra mean 4. be CAUSE/ i COULD/ not regress/ for DEATHThe indorsement and fourth attracts in the stanzas only suffer 3 feet so they follow iambic trimeter pattern, tri meaning 3. Stanza 4 is a circumscribed one. T here is no particular pattern to it. Stanza 6 is sparingly altered by the last line, which has 7 syllables. Otherwise it f ollows the same rules as the forward stanzas.In stanza one, Dickinson introduces the cite of goal with egress hesitation. Here, Death gos us with the tender that he is a well-heeledman or a gentle suitor who beneficent leads the speaker and encourages her to ship on the feed of death. The tone is peaceful and the speaker appears peaceful and is co-operative with his decision.Dickinson uses symbolism to sop up the jaunt of death. This is unmixed when she uses a military posture in line 3 to channelise the speaker, Death and Immortality to the graveyard. course 4 shows that Immortality is as well on the carriage, meaning that the start of the excursion to Death is correspondingwise the start of a journey towards immortality. In Stanza 2, the bank clerk starts her journey slowly. She has started dying and is not struggling once morest all the pains and has overly given up all the joys of flavour, and I had put by My labor and my untenanted too. Death is too d escribed as being civil, His Civility. Stanza 3 uses anaphora. We passed is repeated to give off the return that she is watching as life goes by. alliteration is to a fault employ in lines 11 and 12, Gazing Grain and context of use Sun. The setting lie is also symbolical it represents the end of life. Stanza 4 gives us well-nigh eerie imagery. boundary 13 suggests that it was the sunniness that actually passed her. Dews convey the dew of the night so The Dews drew trembling and chill agent that the speaker is spirit the coldness of the night. This qualification suggest that the she is already nearing the end of her journey towards death. After, she explains why she is cold.She is eroding a nightdress and it is described as being vapourific a light-headed and thin material. consequently she tells us she is also intermiting a Tippet do of Tulle. A tippet is an old-fashioned shoulder cape and tulle is a thin satiny material. Definitely not the clothes you would w ear on a cold chili night. The speaker tells us just about her key in stanza 5. symbolic representation is utilize again in line 17 shack represents the gravestone. We are shown here that the gravestone is scarcely poking out of the ground and that it looks like a cornice. Now, we move into the future. It is also revealed that the narrator has been dead for centuries tis Centuries. problem is used here because the speaker says that these a couple of(prenominal) hundred historic period feel shorter than that sidereal day she died. She also take in that when she died, it would mean going into eternal life the Horses Heads Were toward Eternity. Dickinson has described, quite clearly, her views about death. She suggests that the afterlife gist another life, one that is eternal. While whatsoever would disagree with her, she has made a logical argument that has lasted centuries. The poem is metaphorical, she has used some day-by-day things to portray one of the scariest t hings in life death.