Death Poem

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held 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 strove
At recess, in the ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;
The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown
My tippet only tulle.

We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground;
The roof was scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each 
Feels shorter than the day 
I first surmised the horses' heads 
were toward eternity.
         
 The poem “Death “ by Emily Dickinson basically is telling many that nobody can stop death, and if any tries to, you cannot escape “him” from coming to you. During the time of your death, she writes down that you will go through all kinds of things that relates to a normal person’s life. For example, near the fifth line or so, Dickinson describes that Death is strolling through kids at recess playing joyfully, and that is where youth comes in. Death also then takes her to a place of grain and a beautiful setting sun; this means that the path to heaven is available, while Dickinson is going through all these happiness.  She wants others to know that it is something that is not to be feared, but might be something that people might want to rejoice ab. In this poem, we can hunt down many literary things. For example, in the second to last stanza readers can visualize the rhyme in the second and fourth line of it. The second line’s ground, rhymes with the fourth’s mound! I think everything in this poem is a metaphor or a sentence representing another meaning. Especially when she mentions about youths playing and forgetting their lessons. This part, I personally think, Dickinson is trying to bring awareness that youth is something we should hold in our hands carefully and spend time cautiously with it. We cannot spill the contents of youth onto the ground, because we will end up regretting this.  In this poem, we see many unreachable vocabularies that humans try to gain but cannot. There are also some pretty skeptical words and phrases, such as scarcely visible, or labor. Most of it seems to be telling people that Death takes away all the pain and hard work you normally do, and stroll through the pasts and shows you all the great fun times a human can have. Speaking honestly, the whole poem is just one sentence to me. Dickinson may be telling the readers that death may not be something to be scared about, but rather something that will take all the pain you have away.  In the same Stanza about the youth, it constantly says “we passed, we passed, and we passed”, this tells the readers also that we live our lives faster each day as we get older, and during the time of “Death” we see our lives faster than ever, but eternally getting faster each day.