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Emily Dickinson “712”
How is it that Dickinson can speak of Death and Immortality as two separate entities whom can ride together seemingly hand in hand? I feel puzzled by Dickinson’s ability to use immortality in almost all of her poems especially this one when she seems to be so obsessed with death and the death that surrounds her almost her entire life. How is it that both immortality and death can be so closely linked when they are seemingly opposites? “Because I could not stop for Death-/ He kindly stopped for me-/The Carriage held but just Ourselves-/And Immortality.” I am also curious about her intimate relationship with death and immortality as she personifies them as her friends.
It seems to me that she is comfortable with the concept of death through her images of what she knows. Dickinson turns death into a Gentleman who doesn’t drive quickly or knows nothing of haste, but rather creeps along only watching where life exists. “We passed the School, where Children/strove/ At recess-in the Ring-/We passed fields of Gazing Grain-/We passed the Setting Sun-” It seems like Dickinson is illustrating all the life that is passing her buy as she sits with her Gentleman Death. They watch grain and eventually the even pass the ending of the day. This seems to me to say that she and Death are beyond the death of a day; it seems that their carriage transcends time.
Until this point the poem seems almost positive in its dark way. However, when we arrive at the stanza beginning, “We paused before a House that seemed/A Swelling of the Ground-” the tone shifts to that of grave darkness. Death almost seems life the perfect metaphor for the Gentleman that Dickinson never experienced under the care of her father. The house, which I believe may be the house that she hardly ever left is her final resting grave. And now, when I think about it, it almost seems as Immortality was merely their chaperone as the couple sort of road off into the sunset. “Since then-’tis Centuries-and yet/Feels shorter than the Day/ I first surmised the Horses’ Heads/ Were toward Eternity-” It almost seems like Death isn’t her final resting grave here, but rather her ticket to Eternity another abstract term that she personifies.
This now leads me to ask what the implications of Death really are for Dickinson. After all it seems as if, Death always leads to Immortality and Eternity which seemed contradictory to me at first, but now seem like they could fit together. If Death is so civil and gentlemanly, why did she fear it so much? And what is the “Horses’ Heads” about? I can only guess that it might be about her watching the horses who are towing the carriage, but why is that a significant image for the final stanza? I can only say that I am more confused now than I was before.
This is a thematic analysis... how does it function as such? What elements are explored? What kinds of analysis and evidence are given?
Reflect on what is different about this piece from the other analyses read.
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1. it talks about what the poem is about it breaks down the lines of the poem and tells their meaning, it includes quotes amd facts.
2. there talking about the fact that the author talks about death.
3. again the analysis is about the fact that the author uses the element of death alot.
-Danielle Renzi
well i feel like she was really into the death and life after death concept i see how she kind of discribes a story and writes the poem in a narration form also she uses many literary devices in her poem tha make it kind of hard to understand and she also uses two different concepts like death and eternity which dont really go together in my way of thinking but by comparing these two different concepts she is surely making a point about the poem and its meaning.
1.)This analysis works because it givess you a detailed idea of the poem and what the poet is trying to say by its irrelevant concepts and ideas.
2.)Also it uses many elements to descrive the ideas of the poem such as images, methaphors, symbolism, and the representation and how she descrives the death and ethernity as people or living things.
3.)It uses two different types of analysis its a descriptive analysis and also a comparative because it
clearly descrives parts of the poem and analyses it and its comparative because it talks about the relationship between the two abstracts ideas such as death and ethernity.
ayooo ii think that the concept was Really abstract and a little confusing.
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
LOVE this stanza. you can pretty much get whatever you want from it.
Shalom=]
jonathan=]
1. Well the thematic analysis you break down the poem and ask questions and then answer the questions and analize the poem like that.
2.they talk about death alot and what the author thinks and feels about it.
3. the main subject is death and the take sentences and break it down and analize it and give their opinions on it.
- Gabii Mora
1) The writer expresses what certain parts of the poem makes him feel. Such as how Emily Dickinson uses imortality and death in the same poem together in a way. The auhor also makes comments on how he assumes Dickinson felt while writing this, for example in the second paragraph he states that Dickinson seems comfoable with the concept of death.
2) Though out the analysis the author speaks about the tone of the poem how death is portrayed as almost positive in a dark way and then shifts to a complete darkness.
3) In the previous analysis' we've read the authors analyze the poem while explaining it to the reader but in this analysis the author didn't understand the poem at all really wic made it a lot more opinianated and not very helpfull for a reader that does'nt understand the poem.
-Haley
1. The author talks about what the poem makes them feel.
2. The elements that are exposed are death and immortality.
3. The evidence that is given is the title of the poem is Because I couldnt not stop for Death and in the poem they say the words death and immortality.
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Rensponce to Poem: I think this poem is really intersesting. It's really short but make me think of many things, such is the author speaking of an untimely death? And how comfortable the author is speaking of death. It's really intresting that the tone is so calm and sensible while speaking of death. I amazed because the that Dickenson describes death is as a gentleman. It the word "Immortality" has a allusion of mystery to the whole concept. And it seems like an ordinary day Dickenson speaks of passing by a school and fields od grain and endeit the poem beautiful with the sentence about heading towards "Eternity" like it not anything out the ordinary.
Renspone to Essay: In the essay the writer makes a connetion of how Dickenson is so comfortable with the concept of daeth. I noticed that fact to while reding this poem. It also makes a connection to her life, regarding her relationship with her father. It quotes from the poem and the writer follows up his/her thoughts on the meaing of the stanza. "Until this point the poem seems almost positive in its dark way. " this sentence make me think that the writer is making a connention to the poem w/gothic literature but unknowingly. It has a very prespective in take on the poem and it's relation to her like.
This is functioned as a thematic analysis, because the writer of this article focused on one main concept of the poem.
The kind of anaylsis & evidence that is given, is how Emily Dickson writes about death & immortality & since they are so different. The writer use d Emily Dickson background to back up his opinion.
What's different about this analysis from the other ones ive read is that, this analysis is thematic so the writer states their opinion & uses additional information to back them seleves up.
uhm yes it is because it focuses on death.
the evidence given is her comments on the writer's constant focus on death and immorality.
she seems puzzled by the prospec t of gthe writer using death and immorality in her poem as one.
shalom=]
jonathan
1)This poem function shows stanzas and their meanings. has many facts.
2)the main elements i got from the poem was death, put also it seems strang that the poet also talked about immortaliy.
3)What the poet talked about in its poem, and why she could have talked about it.
I fell like this is a thematic analysis because it does go into depth on explaining what the article is really about. The elements that are explored here are clearly the concept of death and its after life. the analyses that is given here is exploring why she talks about dealth in such a describtive way and how it relates to a man or ghost almost. The evidence that is given here is quotes almost of lines from the poem itself and then explaning into detail what they mean.The differnce from this piece of wrightnig to any other analysis is that the rest of the analysis that iv read are all really really indepth and more written into and a little hard and confusing to understand but this analyses is more down to earth and easyier to understand it sounds less confusing and i like this one more..... katherine orengo ...
This analysis is a thematic one beacuse it focuses on theme and concept.
the elements that are explored Death and immortality.
the evidence thats given for this analysis is the theme.
i like how it breacks the poem down into pieces but it really doesnt come to a conclusion or understanding of the poem
the analysis explores how or why death is the topic that this person choose, or why shes talking about death instead of something happy
and i wonder who the man she talks about is..
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