Analysis of 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'         The poets of the nineteenth century wrote on a variety of topics. One often used topic is that of death. The theme of death has been approached in many different ways. Emily Dickinson is one of the numerous poets who uses death as the subject of several of her poems. In her poem 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death,' death is portrayed as a …showed first 75 words of 1966 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1966 total…writing of the poets of the nineteenth century, readers are given many different ways of regarding various aspects of life. Works Cited Adventures in American Literature, Pegasus Edition. Ed. Francis Hodgins. Dallas: HBJ, 1989. 330. American Literature: The Makers and the Making. Ed. Cleanth Brooks. Vol. 2. New York: SMP, 1973. 1250. Davis, Thomas M. 14 by Emily Dickinson. Dallas: SFC, 1964. 101-18. Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: HUP, 1992. 329-31. Knapp, Bettina L. Emily Dickinson. New York: CPC, 1989. 91-5.