1. Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
On the literal level death is viewed as a woman's last journey towards eternity. ... The primary theme of the poem is that death is a natural portion of life's journey but at the same time giving comfort that it is not the end of a soul's travel. ... In line 5 Dickinson begins death's journey with a slow, forward movement, which can be seen as she writes, "We slowly drove---He knew no haste." ... This is the complete opposite belief about afterlife in Dickinson's other poem, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", which indicated that life is a never-ending journe...
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- Grade Level: High School