Dickinson

"BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,/ He kindly stopped for me;"

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2008/02/death_is_what_did_she_just_say.html

Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity (Dickinson, lines 17-20)

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"The carriage held but just ourselves and Immortality." (Because I could not stop for Death, Dickinson)
Which would you rather live forever...or have Death riding shotgun?

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/MadelynGillespie/2008/02/jurys_still_out_on_immortality.html

“BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me”

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelicaGuzzo/2008/02/death_is_kind.html

"Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity" (Dickinson, Because I Could... lines 17-20).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AllisonHall/2008/02/time_flies_when_youre_having_f.html

“We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun” (Dickinson 9-12).
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2008/02/nostalgia.html

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"We slowly drove, he knew no haste, / And I had put away / My labor, and my leisure too, / For his civility" (Dickinson 5-8).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JulianaCox/2008/02/thank_you_death.html

Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me. (Dickinson lines 1-2) This passage could mean that she was crossing the road and didn't have time to stop. He stopped the carriage for her.

"BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality" (Dickinson 1-4).

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"We passed the school where children played
At wrestling in a ring;
We passed the fields of gazing grain,
We passed the setting sun" (Dickinson).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/KaitlinMonier/2008/02/stages_in_life.html

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/TiffanyGilbert/2008/02/race_for_death.html

"I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity"

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JessieFarine/2008/02/death_does_not_come_ripping_th.html

I can never pick a stanza from a poem...so here are some notes for each one...

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http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JeanineONeal/2008/02/the_chariot.html

BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me (dickinson)

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/ChelseaOliver/2008/02/el150_its_late_im_doing_all_in_1.html

Of course, once again I couldn't get my blog to work.

"Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;" (Dickinson)

I really liked this part of the poem because I think so many people get caught up in their own lives that they forget to slow down and notice everything around them. Whether you're a rich business man or someone living on the streets, no matter how busy you are, death is going to make time to visit us all. I once heard someone ask "We are all so busy with our lives, but where are we all rushing to?". I thought of that comment when I read this poem.

Why is this stanza missing:

Or rather, he passed us;
The dews grew quivering and chill,
For only gossamer my gown,
My tippet only tulle.

It's in every version of the poem I'm familiar with.

She actually wrote:
"We passed the school, where Children strove
at recess - in the ring"

This is only one example of where an editor, failing to appreciate her genius, unable to see what she was saying, edits her into a banality.

Remember what that playground was really like? We strove, didn't we?