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Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death
For as long as history has been recorded and probably for much longer, man has always been at odds with the idea of his own death. Even those of us who have accepted death graciously, have at least in some way feared, dreaded, or attempted to de ....
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.... death. Death does not come quickly. Rather, it arrives with a menacing slowness. She has ridden with him and is now reflecting upon her well-lived years. In this sense, we all ride alongside death as it certainly does follow us everywhere we go. The “horse’s head”(23) refers to the carriage in which they ride, and she now knows that she has been heading towards this eternity and that the only way to eternity is through death, not through living.
The irony in this poem is that the author heroicizes death by the time it is over. Death has become her lifelong friend and the comp ....
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