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 Re: Because I Could Not Stop For Death It is interesting that the 4th stanza in question has a different rhythm to it. When I turned 13 someone gave me Emily Dickinson's collected works as a birthday present. I never really liked Emily Dickinson, and the gifter didn't know me very well, but knew that I liked poetry, and so assumed that I would enjoy her poems. I tried to read it from the beginning on, and almost every single one of her poems has the same meter and rhyme scheme and most are untitled, so after several poems, I forgot which poems I had read or was reading and it all became one big poem to me, so I gave her up until I encountered her again in college.
This poem stood out for me, however, mostly because of the imagery in the first stanza and my own morbid sense of beauty that was developing even then, and it could also have been the change in meter in that 4th stanza. I can't be certain, as memory is faulty and self analysis doesn't always conclude with truth, but I do know that for some reason this poem stood out and remained my favorite of hers even after discussing others in various classes.
I do find the break in the rhythm to be an interesting thing to look at, and the reasons surrounding it just as interesting. It could have been added later, as you have mentioned, Gary, and an editor could have then removed it because it didn't seem to fit the rhythm scheme, or it could be that the poet actually wants us to place more emphasis on this stanza, and thus has manipulated it to be separate from the rest of the poem. I can't tell either way, but both are plausible, and I thank you for these suggestions.
I like the vision of her in gossamer and tulle. To me, it shows that the people who dressed her for her funeral and placed her in the coffin didn't realize she may be cold on her way to eternity. It gives me a feel of an Egyptian kind of burial ritual, where the living buried the dead with things they would need in the Afterlife, and that Christians don't see death this way and think she would be going to Heaven, and thus dressed her to be pretty but not warm. This is only a reading of course, and not an assertion that there is truth in either of those beliefs, but it is interesting to think about a possible Egyptian correlation here, where she really should have been dressed warmer to enter into eternity without the sun and the comforts of nature.
This poem really does bring up so many questions about nature and death and eternity. I hadn't even realized that when I decided to anaylize it, but I am glad it does because it has brought so many great viewpoints to the discussion.
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