Emily Dickinson

In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", Emily Dickinson uses remembered images of the past to clarify infinite conceptions through the establishment of a dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the known and the unknown. Dickinson suggests that the stages of life include death and eternity, which are interconnected. By examining Emily Dickinson’s personae, imagery, figures of speech, form, diction and symbolism in “Because I could not stop for Death” one can truly …showed first 75 words of 860 total…

…showed last 75 words of 860 total…the speaker to understand the correlation between all of these isolated events of life, which create a path that leads “towards Eternity” (24) like the "Horses Heads" (23). Through her boundless incorporation and progressive ordering of the chronological world with the spiritual universe, Dickinson shapes meaning from the limitations of life through her language, allowing the reader a momentary glimpse at a universe in which the seemingly distinct and discontinuous stages of existence are implicated and purposed.