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Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop For Death
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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 delay its arrival. We have personified death as an ev ....
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....ears. 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 companion that she has always longed for.
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