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Created by: mkfsd
Created on: 16-02-13 16:29

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Because I could not stop for Death
- Stanza 1
  - "He kindly stoped for me" The perfect gentleman
  - "The carriage held but just Ourselves" - Her journey to death; the beginging of afterlife
  - "And Immortality" The chaperone
  - Death is personified as a gentleman that's taking her for a ride
- Stanza 2
  - "We slowly drove" death is control but doesn't slow down
  - "For His Civility" Death is too polite and charming - He's distracted Personification
  - "And I had put away" - She's given up thinking about her work and thinking about her "labor" and "leisure"
- Stanza 3
  - "We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain" Emphasises that a boundary is being crossed.
  - "in the Ring" - Progression of life, from youth to old age. COuld suggest that her life is flashing before her eyes
- Stanza 4
  - "quivering and chill" - The dampness and coldness is emphasised by aliteration and by the icy "i" sounds - Metaphor to the coldness associated with death
  - "Gossamer, my Gown". She's cold as a corpse because she's underprepared
- Stanza 5
  - "We paused before a house". Her final resting place, her journey is over . Last stop is grace
  - "The roof was scarcely visable" She doesnt need to see the whole thing to know that it exists, she believes it
- Stanza 6
  - "Since then" past to present tense, she's looking back on a previous experience. The speaker is dead, she's speaking to us from eternity
  - "Were toward eternity" no closure or end. Could suggest that death leads to immortality