Could Not Stop For Death By Emily Dickinson And Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening

Auden’s tone toward death is saddened, gloomy, and emotional while Dickinson’s tone is more relaxed, understanding, and accepting of death. Vocabulary is another difference between the two poems. The vocabulary choice in “Funeral Blues” is overall simple with the exception of a couple words for example, when Auden wrote, “Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.” Each word written in this line is simple except dismantle. Instead of simply writing “take down the sun” the author chose to use “dismantle” making the poem more creative. Throughout “Because I could not stop for death” a choice of intellectual vocabulary words was used by Dickinson. She wrote, “The dews grew quivering and chill, for only gossamer my gown.” Instead of simply writing, “The night grew cold, for I only wore a sheer gown” Dickinson decides to use more vivid vocabulary.

    Figurative language plays a key role in the poem, as well. The best example is  The Morning after Death,  which sounds a lot like  mourning after death.  In fact,  mourning  could even replace  morning  and the poem would still make sense. Another example occurs in the second stanza, when Dickinson uses the words  sweeping  and  putting.   By using such cold, unfeeling words when describing matters of the heart, the author creates a numb, distant tone. She really means that after someone dies, one almost has to detach oneself from the feelings of love that once existed for the deceased.

Robert Frost and William Shakespeare have been celebrated by many people because of their ability to express themselves through the written word. Here we are years after their deaths analyzing these fascinating poems about life and death. It’s clear they had similar thoughts about this subject at the time of these writings, even though their characters could not have been more opposite. For both poets, life is too

The poem I chose to do a close reading essay on was, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” by Mary Elizabeth Frye. “Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) is an American poet who remains known today for a single poem-a sonnet of just twelve lines-but it may be the most popular poem in the English language. “Do not stand at my grave and weep” is a consoling Holocaust poem and elegy with an interesting genesis, since it was written by a Baltimore housewife who lacked a formal education and had quite never written poetry before, and certainly none of note” (The HyperTexts). The tone of this poem is comforting and helps people find comfort with the view of death. This poem uses a lot of imagery, metaphors, and symbolism. Frye’s, “Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep,” is enlightening people how to handle a death of a loved one while using important parts of the theme such as tone, vocabulary, and overall meaning.

Aside from the connections and similarities both of these poems are actually quite different. In Cummings’ poem the time cycle such as, “spring summer autumn winter” (3). Has the effect that time goes by quickly and the little things almost are insignificant. Also in Cummings’ poem he had mentioned how children grew to forget, allowing for such interpretations like, once one grows up they loose who they once were. Where in Frost’s poem time slows down to make a choice that will alter one’s life. When he is deciding between the roads he has time to ponder and question his move having each movement being significant rather than insignificant. Also in Frost’s poem it is safe to assume that when making a choice one will use the knowledge and experiences they had as a child to make choices in the future allowing the reader to understand that one doesn’t simply loose who they once were, but one changes who they become through the choices they make.

One poet uses the poetic device “meter” seen as not an ordinary conversation but a specific beat in music, creating a regular beat that reflects on a calm and steady perspective, while Whitman uses no rhyme nor pattern of meter more like an ordinary conversation. Furthermore, the mentioning of the theme itself death, come at different times of both poems, Dickinson introduces the theme in the first stanzas of her poem while Whitman inkling that the poem is about dying towards the fourth stanza of his poem. The rhyme schemes for both poems is different while Emily Dickinson poem has a rhyme scheme of “abcb” Whitman’s poem has a rhyme scheme of “acbc”. Although the attitudes of poems may be similar they express themselves in their way. For example, the attitude in Whitman poem, is about death, drifting away like air and then his body being reborn like grass, death being part of nature and needed to be accepted as such. Dickinson attitude in her poem is calm, relaxing, and inviting which may seem ironic since both poems are portraying death but from whole different feel and

Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson’s poetry is very different; however death seems to be a familiar topic amongst both poets. Opposites attract, and you could say the same for Whitman and Dickinson because though they have different writing styles both repeatedly write about death. Once more, although both Whitman and Dickinson have many different feelings about death, they also share many similar feelings about it as well. Although Walt Whitman's poetry is rather long and quite simple and Emily Dickinson's are often short and complex, the theme of death strongly ties their works together.

The two poems “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Acquainted with the Night” written by Robert Frost are very similar to each other because of the simplistic form of language used and the uses of metaphors. When we first read the poem, it looks like an ordinary poem but once we go in depth and understand the meaning, it becomes so much more. Both of the poem has a very dark, gloomy and lonely setting with a really mysterious tone. There are different metaphors used in each poem to symbolize death; “Sleep” in “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” and “Night” in “Acquainted with the Night.” The characters in the two poem are both in a journey and has come

Dickinson’s tone seems to portray suffering throughout the beginning of her poems, but gradually develops into a more hopeful and optimistic attitude

There are several likenesses and differences in these poems. They each have their own meaning; each represent a separate thing and each tell a different story. However, they are all indicative of Frost’s love of the outdoors, his true enjoyment of nature and his wistfulness at growing old. He seems to look back at youth with a sad longing.

How the two poems contrast each other is that even though they are talking about time passing, in the poem “Morning Light” the author talks about death also and how soon it will come for her. She also tells the readers of how lively and free she once was in the morning light, when her “Lord Love” was fond of her and loved her. (Wilkins-Freeman). Now that she is became older she believes that his “brother” Lord Death was pursuing her now, “He may be my Lord Death, his brother; the likelihood of that I see” (Wilkins-Freeman), she knew that she will soon meet

They both also have two different point of views. Some might disagree and argue that these two poems are very similar. But on the other hand I say they are more different than they are similar. “We grow accumed to the dark” is about adolescents and adjusting to stages in life. “Before i got my eye put out” is about appreciating what you have. It is also about feeling the beauty of life and understand the concept of living itself. The first poem Dickinson, is writing about learning and making mistakes. But the second poem is about being knowledgeable but losing that knowledge. every reader can agree, both poems are about losing and gaining

Poems are like snowflakes. While no two are the same, they all have common structures and themes. One prevalent theme in poetry is that of death, which is present in both “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost. Dickinson perceives death as a gentleman, while Frost perceives death as loneliness, which provides insight on how the time periods of the poems, the genders of the authors, and the authors’ personal experiences influence literature.

This poem clearly functions as an allegory. On a symbolic level, it was easy to grasp that this poem was a recollection of the speaker’s death. Dickinson describes this death so well it is almost as if she is writing about her own death. The main clue that this was a poem of death was that she got in a carriage with two guys whose names just happened to be Death and Immortality. Death symbolizes the passing away of the body, and Immortality represents the Christian belief that the body dies but the soul is immortal.

Although the theme of both the poems is same, its meaning illustrates the contrasting story to the reader. “Because I could not stop for death” takes the readers on the journey of the poet’s death. According to Patricia Engle, “She juggles temporal with eternal, corporal with spiritual, and life with death deftly, in mercurial shifts between micro and macro views of the worlds around her, within her, and beyond her.” (2) The poem reminds the readers about the ultimate reality of death. Because death is a purpose of uncertainty for everyone while she is excited and relieved taking it as a seasonal activity. “I had put away/ My labor & my leisure too, /For His civility” (6-8), further she says death is “Kind” and Dickinson “could not stop for death.” The poem “Nothing But Death” talks more about graves and dead souls. Pablo denotes “death” into “bones” & “coffins.” He sees all the dead things around him, “with women that have dead hair/with bakers as white as angels” (17), “the colors of damp violet” (33). The melancholy and darkness are carried all throughout the poem. The poet uses “darkness” three times in one line to express how much he fears the graves and dead bodies around him.