Because Death

1、Because I Could Not Stop for Death -By Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality. We slowly drove, he knew no haste, And I had put away My labor, and my leisure too, For his civility. 因为我不能停下来等待死亡，他亲切地停下等我；马车中只有

2、我们俩还有“不朽”同行。我们慢慢行驶,他知道无需匆忙，而我已经放下我的劳作，和我的懒散，为他的殷勤有礼。We passed the school, where children strove At recess, in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. Or rather, he passed us; The dews grew quivering and chill, For only gossamer my gown,My tippet only tuller.我们经过学校，

3、正是课间休息孩子们正在游戏，喧闹；我们经过注目凝视的谷物的田野，经过西沉的落日。确切地说是他经过了我们；那露水引来了冷颤寒气，因我的礼服仅为纤细的薄纱织物 我的披肩-不过是绢网而已 We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice in the ground. Since then tis Centuries and yet Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses

4、heads Were toward eternity. 我们在一座房舍前停下似乎是隆起的地面；几乎看不见屋顶，屋檐只是个土堆。从那时已有几个世纪；从那时已有几个世纪；但每一个但每一个感觉都比那一天还短感觉都比那一天还短那是我第一次猜出那是我第一次猜出马头朝向永恒。马头朝向永恒。 Something about Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family wi

5、th strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. And many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.Some

6、thing about the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a lyric poem on the theme of death. It contains six stanzas, each stanza with four lines. (A poem like this is called a quatrain.) The poem was first published in 1890 in Poems, Series 1, a collection of Miss Dickinsons poems that was edit

7、ed by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The editors titled the poem Chariot. Theme of the poem The overall theme of the poem seems to be that death is not to be feared since it is a natural part of the endless cycle of nature. Her view of death may also reflect he

8、r personality and religious beliefs. On the one hand, as a spinster, she was somewhat reclusive and introspective, tending to dwell on loneliness and death. On the other hand, as a Christian and a Bible reader, she was optimistic about her ultimate fate and appeared to see death as a friend. Charact

9、ers Speaker: A woman who speaks from the grave. She says she calmly accepted death. In fact, she seemed to welcome death as a suitor whom she planned to marry. Death: Suitor who called for the narrator to escort her to eternity. Immortality: A passenger in the carriage. Children: Boys and girls at p

10、lay in a schoolyard. They symbolize early life. Symbols .In the fourth stanza, the school symbolizes the morning of life; Children, They symbolize early life. The grain, symbolizes the midday of life and the working years; The setting sun, symbolizes the evening of life and the death of life. Rhyme

11、Dickinson occasionally uses internal rhyme, as in the following lines: The carriage held but just ourselves (line 3) We slowly drove, he knew no haste (line 5) We passed the fields of gazing grain (line 11) The dews grew quivering and chill (line 14)Alliteration Because I could not stop for Death (line 1) he knew no haste (line 5) My labor, and my leisure too (line 7) At recess, in the ring gazing grain (line 11) setting sun (line 12) Fo