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I Heard a Fly Buzz

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My name is Elizabeth, I like Emily Dickson's poem. The paper is Emily Dickson's poem, which is write about death like "Because I could not stop death". If it is possible I want to know about Emily's poem interms of figurative speech. So, could I found this analysis of about Emily's work. Thank U!! That is why I am a literature student. If it is possible I need some poems of her. Because she is a very nice writer during her era. In her poem, In the first stanza "Because I could not stop for Death" the author has any background, because of her against the fear of death. Death is imagery for dark; it’s also the end of our life. So, the author uses personification in this stanza and she speaks with death like a person. She said death (he) kindly stopped for me and also death civil. In the second stanza Death, she wrote about her "labor" and her "leisure," are done, and she is content to be in the carriage, as if now there were no other concern but death's luxury. The word labor in line 7 recalls the good works to be done for God's world by true Christians--works now no longer necessary. Dickinson means for us to regard the word ironically. In lines 9 and 10 the poem reads, "We passed the School, where Children strove / At Recess in the Ring." In the use of strove to indicate labor, we are meant to understand something more than, and including, "play," for isn't that what children do at recess, after their lessons and schoolwork? Strove emphasizes the children's energy, while the speaker, her life over, sits passively in the carriage; but it is also a reminder that as Christians children are meant to start early to labor for their salvation. Should they be allowed simply to play? In the 1860 version of the poem the lines read, "We passed the school where children played, / Their lessons scarcely done." Why did Dickinson write "strove"? Was it because

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