Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson the

¶ … Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson The Poem Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson is both morose and whimsical. Making light of the speed at which people live their lives Dickinson thanks Death for think of taking the time to stop and pick her up by the side of the road.

The whimsical language of the opening stanza; Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality Dickinson) Gives the impression that the weight of the images of death and immortality is trivial at best. The whimsy continues as Dickinson describes the proverbial life flashing before her eyes as the landscape passes the carriage without haste.

As can be seen from a critical analysis of the language of the piece, Dickinson whimsically plays with the heady issues of Death, Immorality and Eternity as if they encompass no real care at all. Though images of death require the average person to imagine darkness, mystery and fear, images like those invoked by the Dickinson 4th spirit in A Christmas Carol, THE Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.

When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery. It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night, and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.

(Dickens 103) The stereotyped image of the skeletal robes specter is the dominant heady idea of what death is and what it means. Yet, Dickinson describes a conveniently civil character that is doing her a favor and expediting her need to die. "And I had put away, My labor and my leisure too, For his civility." The image of Immortality is painted as a character or a possibility in the presence of the timeless doorway that is the presence of the congenial Death.

Dickinson describes the idea that she will live forever in the company of this easy specter. Dickinson describes the home of her eternity, whether it is her own home in a split second or the one she will live in eternally she seems nonplussed by the idea that it is underground rather than above it.

In a literary analysis of the meaning of immorality and the belief in life after death, written in 1900 the topic is given real and firm weight by hundreds of learned men from biblical prophets to Greek philosophers, some in belief and some outside of it. (Gordon) Immortality is clearly one of the most-weighty questions ever debated yet, Dickinson discusses it like she would discuss an article of clothing.

Since then-tis-eternity, and yet, Feels shorter than the day, I first surmised that Horses; Heads, Were toward Eternity." (Dickinson) Noticing the imperceptible passing of time Dickinson expresses the idea of eternity as if it were simply a day, like any other day.

The other set of physical processes from which we derive our conceptions of time are of an entirely different nature: the growth of children, the changes in our own bodies and minds from hour to hour and from year to year, and, on a larger scale, the gradual changes in the earth's landscape of which we are dimly aware. None of these make accurate clocks; none are simple to understand.

(Park 60) Concepts of time are again treated with so much complexity that many a literary work has been focused on the idea in theory and in.