Emily Dickinson Setting

The setting is all over the place in this poem in the beginning it is known that they are in a ride on Death's horse carriage. They go for a stroll through the schoolyard, fields and past the setting sun and eventually to the speakers grave. In the beginning light is present on their trip then the sun sets and the night commences. Now on to the grave the speaker never actually explains how and if she ever went into the “house” or how she ever made it in so it is just assumed she put herself in there. Once again and for the last time it shifts into the present time in her afterlife and the speaker is telling her story long past the day it all happened.
It is essential to understand the setting of the poem because it is one of the main ways you will be able to understand the themes of …show more content…
Emily Dickinson is saying that death is not something to be afraid of. The reasons why is because even before it is time to go into the afterlife death is kind and greets the ones dying, he takes a stroll around what the person's life was and all of the places the person's life was involved in. Next she is saying that Death will have to give something to symbolize the ending of the mortal life and she is hoping it is in the form of a sun passing her. Reassuring us readers that the ending of light will signify a significant change. It will let the person know that although they had a great life something else awaits for them in the afterlife so moral of the story is to not fear death. Death is only there to help and be a guidance on the journey to the afterlife.
The poem “Because i could not escape death” by Emily Dickinson was about many things such as mortality and immortality. In this poem Emily Dickinson begins to tell us about how dying helps us stray away from mortality and helps us on the journey into immortality. Emily Dickinson writes about an unexpected meeting with