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Because I Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickenson

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In the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickenson, death takes form as a human that acts as a gentle guide to the speaker of the poem. However the relationship changes in the fourth stanza, a more conventional vision of death takes place and things become cold and corrupt. Dickenson successfully creates this relationship between the speaker and death by using personification, sensory details, and paradox. The meter of the poem creates a kind of light hearted rhyme to it which creates a tone that isn’t as dark as the poems subject matter.
Personification is the most important of the rhetorical devices used in the poem, mainly because without it the poem would lose one of its main characters. When Dickenson says “He kindly

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