... a house or grave which is her final resting place. Death guides the narrator through many aspects of life in their journey to eternity, implying there is an afterlife and death is simply the beginning of another journey. The personification in Emily Dickinson's poem, "Because I could not stop for Death- is so vivid the reader is able to form a mental picture of horses pulling a ghost like being ... in the carriage past the children's school playground and grain fields: We passed the School, where Children strove At Recess - in the Ring - We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain - We passed ...

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... )" equals old age. In addition to these three stages, the final stage of eternity was symbolized in the last two lines of the poem "The Horses" Heads (23)," " Leading toward Eternity (24)." Dickinson dresses the scene in such that a mental picture sight, feeling and sound of once life. The imagery begins when Dickinson invites us into the carriage. Death slowly takes us on a sight seeing trip ... where we see the stages of life. The first site was the "School, where Children stove (9)." It deals with an important symbol, the "Ring." This scene is perhaps the most important. The children ...

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... cases of death, hearing is the last sense to be lost. Dickinson emphasizes this last Sense' in her use of many auditory adjectives. These are the sounds that shape the person's discernment of reality. The reader can never see or picture these people at the funeral in the narrator's Brain. Instead, this poem is best understood by the sounds she describes it by. In the first stanza, Dickinson utilizes ... the metaphor of a "Funeral, in my Brain- (Ln. 1) and specifically uses capital letters ... she is still "wrecked, solitary, here."" This use of three descriptive states shows her dislik...

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... , where Children strove- (9). In addition, at recess, the children performed a venerable ritual, perhaps known to all, in a ring. On this invited journey, one vividly sees the "Children- playing, laughing, and singing. This scene conveys deep emotions and moods through verbal pictures. The imagery in the final scene, "We passed the Setting Sun,"" proved very emotional (12). One can clearly picture a warm setting sun, perhaps, over a grassy horizon ... . When Dickinson passed the "Setting Sun,"" night drew near and it was time to go home and sleep. Symbolically, her tour of life was short;...

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... their ritualistic game is a reminder of the mortal stakes that the poet talks about elsewhere-(21). On this invited journey, one vividly sees the "Children- playing, laughing, and singing. This scene conveys deep emotions and moods through verbal pictures. The imagery in the final scene, "We passed the Setting Sun,"" proved very emotional (12). One can clearly picture a warm setting sun, perhaps, over ... a grassy horizon. The idea of a setting sun, aftermath a fact of slumber in ... a cold dark night. When Dickinson passed the "Setting Sun,"" night drew nigh and it was time ... ...

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... to start a new life, possibly from the beginning, after being reincarnated. Christians might have a different view on what the "house" in the poem symbolizes. They might view it as a final resting place of some kind for the body, where "the separation of the immortal soul from the mortal body occurs, so that when the body dies the soul lives on" (The Biblical View of Death). The Hindu's would have also taken issue ... with the fact that Emily Dickinson states "And I had to ... saying death "kindly" stopped for her, and brought her past a school at recess, and the setting sun, it paints...

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