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A date with Death

This further displays the irony of death because no one usually stops their life for death itself. .
             Stanza three also is very uplifting, which still strikes the reader because death is normally thought of as solemn and sad. In this stanza I feel she is looking back at specific time periods in her life. When the speaker refers to "The school where children played/ the fields of grazing grain/ and passing the setting sun" (9-12) it appears as if the school may represent her childhood, as she reflects back on her past. The field of grazing grain shows resemblance of her days of maturity as she became an adult. When I think of grain I think of a slow growing, tedious process, which maturity can be compared to. Since the maturation process is slow due to years of learning thru life's trials and tribulations, it feels as if she's reminiscing about this time of her life. The sun setting reflects on the declining years on her life as she approaches the inevitable eternity of death. The first line of stanza four we find the speaker correcting her about the setting sun, saying that the sun passed them, they did not pass it. This passage signifies the stoppage of time because it observed by her that she is going so slow it seems as if time is not moving. This stanza can also serve as the speaker describing how life will continue without her presence on earth. The significance of this is she is beginning to accept the fact that she will never experience the living world again. Either way, the reader is still feeling that Death is good, a reverse of the normal connotation.
             Dickinson finally makes the transition from this kind, quiet poem into a dark, serious tone in the fourth stanza. The second line states "The dews grew quivering and chill" (14) using the cold description of "quivering" and "chill". She has begun to realize that maybe Death is not as great when the chill from the dew hits her body.


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