Emily Dickinson Tone

Emily Dickinson is a poetry writer known to incorporate her deep feelings of life, religion, and nature as her writing subjects within a span of a few lines. Her poems often reflect on seventeenth-century England, focusing on the upbringing of Puritan New England and the conservative approach to Christianity. Dickinson’s poetry style consists of solid imagery, blending in allegory and symbolism to scenes of universal ideas. In her lyrical poem, “Because I could not stop for Death,” a female narrator is nostalgic about the memory when “Death” came her way. Dickinson’s poetry technique, with the use of symbolism, punctuation, and structure and tone help strengthen the poems theme of death being a new beginning of another life and a new perpetuity for the soul. The structure of the poem and the use of punctuation helps accentuates the subject matter of death and afterlife. At first glance, the poem’s title is the first line …show more content…
The word choice throughout the poem adds a positive factor to the cryptic poem. For example, the line “We passed he Fields of Gazing Grain—/ We passed the Setting Sun—,” (Lines 11-12) gives readers a positive image of a field of grain and a gradient sunset. The same lines above and lines 9-10 , “We passed the School, where Children strove/ At Recess— in the Ring—,” supports the theme of the poem by the use of symbolism. Together, the four lines form one stanza in the poem. The stanza symbolizes the cycle of life. The words “School,” “Recess,” and “Ring,” give the appearance of grade school, which symbolizes the beginning of life with innocence. And the words “Fields of Gazing Grain,” and “Setting Sun,” exemplify the middle stage of life and ending. The steady grains represent the stable momentum an individual has in their life, and the sunset stands for the conclusion of life disappearing in the darkness, but still displaying a tranquil image of