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A 5 page research paper that offers a comprehensive analysis of Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for death." The writer offers a line-by-line analysis and also discusses how scholars differ on interpretation. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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with a paper of this limited length. Therefore, this paper begins with the subject at-hand. It is recommended that the student, however, when writing his or her own paper from
this example may choose to compose a more suitable introductory paragraph. As with all of Dickinsons poems, since she did not entitle her verse, the title is taken from the
first line, "Because I could not stop for Death --" (line 1). The poet goes on, "He kingly stopped for me --" (line 2). Because the poet, herself, did not
stop for death, Dickinson is telling the reader that she did not commit suicide. Her death was not of her own doing. However, by picturing Death as a courtly suitor,
"kindly stopping" for her, it implies that Death came quietly, peacefully, and was welcome. The second stanza begins, "We slowly drove -- He knew no haste/ And I had put
away/ My labor and my leisure too, / For His Civility --." (Lines 5-8). The poet has set aside the cares of life, even though she does not apparently realize
yet that she is dead, and this is not a suitor. (Note the alliteration between "labor" and "leisure." There are numerous examples of alliteration throughout the poem, which serves
the "flow " of the work as well as a connecting device.) The third stanza says that they passed a schoolhouse, then fields of "grazing grain," which are ordinary
things that are still connected with life, but then they passed the "Setting Sun" (line 12). Or "rather -- He passed Us --" (line 13). At this point the
poet begins to realize the full import of her ride with Death. The tone of the poem goes from having a feeling of brightness, with references to the sun, to
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