I WILL MARK BRAINLIST Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death."
Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
What connection can be made between the speaker and the theme of the poem?
The speaker sees that each day will feel short if filled with happy thoughts.
The speaker understands that their life was wasted with busy tasks.
The speaker realizes that the carriage ride with Death will last forever.
The speaker knows that eternity spent with friends will seem a short time.

Dickinson experienced an emotional crisis of an undetermined nature in the early 1860s. Her traumatized state of mind is believed to have inspired her to write prolifically: in 1862 alone she is thought to have composed over three hundred poems.

Dickinson's poems deal with death again and again, and it is never quite the same in any poem. In “Because I could not stop for Death—,” we see death personified. ... The speaker feels no fear when Death picks her up in his carriage, she just sees it as an act of kindness, as she was too busy to find time for him.

“Because I could not stop for death” is an exploration of both the inevitability of death and the uncertainties that surround what happens when people actually die. In the poem, a woman takes a ride with a personified “Death” in his carriage, by all likelihood heading towards her place in the afterlife.

The speaker realizes that the carriage ride with Death will last forever.

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