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Download Analyzing Literary Devices in Emily Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death' and more Study Guides, Projects, Research Poetry in PDF only on Docsity! Born
in
Amherst,
Massachusetts,
Emily
Dickinson
has
become
one
of
the
greatest
 American
poets.
Her
unique
style
of
writing
has
become
iconic
in
the
poetry
world.
No
one
 can
quite
capture
her
ability
to
write.
However,
out
of
the
1,775
poems
she
wrote
only
7
 were
published
before
her
death.
Her
sister,
Lavinia,
found
all
of
her
poems
and
published
 them
into
a
book
known
as
“The
Poems
of
Emily
Dickinson.”
Among
these
poems
was
 “Because
I
Could
Not
Stop
for
Death.”
In
the
particular
poem,
Dickinson
uses
 personification,
symbols,
and
metaphors
to
convey
the
connection
between
death
and
a
 person.
 Dickinson
uses
personification
to
convey
how
death
is
like
a
person
in
her
poem
 “Because
I
could
Not
Stop
for
Death.”
This
is
shown
when
she
conveys
how
death
waits
for
 her.
This
is
specifically
shown
in
lines
1
and
2
“Because
I
could
not
stop
for
Death‐
He
 kindly
waited
for
me‐.”
This
is
personification
because
death
cannot
literally
stop
to
wait
 for
someone.
Dickinson
portrays
that
death
acts
like
a
person
waiting
for
her
to
join.
 Another
example
is
when
she
compares
death
to
its
manners.
This
is
shown
in
line
8
“for
 his
civility‐.”
She
says
this
to
illustrate
that
death
is
polite
and
his
manners
when
in
reality,
 this
is
not
possible.
Finally
she
uses
personification
to
show
how
she
and
death
travel
 together
in
line
5
“We
slowly
drove‐He
knew
no
haste.”
Death
is
being
personified
as
a
 person
who
is
driving
to
death.
These
are
all
examples
on
how
Dickinson
used
 personification
to
compare
death
to
a
person.

 Dickinson
also
uses
metaphors
in
her
poem
“Because
I
Could
Not
Stop
for
Death”.
 She
uses
these
to
compare
the
journey
and
resting
place
of
death.
The
journey
to
death
is
 shown
in
lines
3
and
4,
“The
carriage
held
but
just
ourselves‐And
immortality.”
These
lines