Emily Dickinson Argumenitive Essay
Emily Dickinson poems had themes from the beauty of nature and life, to poems of death and darkness. Though no one knows for sure, critics argue she was bi-polar. Her poetry is noticeably darker after the Thomas Higginson rejections. They are much more gloomy and depressing; a sort of miserable understanding to things. A very famous and deep piece, "Because I could not stop for Death" is a good example of this gloomy acceptance reoccurring in her work: The deepest part of the poems could sometimes be in the first stanza. In "Because I could not stop for Death," she describes death as kind and refers to his civility, almost as a passenger. “He drives slowly,” is an expression of the slow journey to acceptance of death, but awaiting in the carriage is immortality. She is referring to death almost as a gentleman, more of a messenger than a deliverer; a messenger of immortality, perhaps the greatest gift of all. The ride in the carriage symbolizes her leaving what she knows to be life and entering another. In the third stanza, Dickinson used the word "passed" a lot and she is signifying her passing through the world she once knew.