{"id":55,"date":"2024-02-18T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T06:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=55"},"modified":"2024-02-19T04:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T04:15:22","slug":"because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-by-emily-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/because-i-could-not-stop-for-death-by-emily-dickinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Because<\/p>\n

Because I could not stop for Death,
\nHe kindly stopped for me;
\nThe carriage held but just ourselves
\nAnd Immortality.<\/p>\n

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
\nAnd I had put away
\nMy labor, and my leisure too,
\nFor his civility.<\/p>\n

We passed the school where children played,
\nTheir lessons scarcely done;
\nWe passed the fields of gazing grain,
\nWe passed the setting sun.<\/p>\n

We paused before a house that seemed
\nA swelling of the ground;
\nThe roof was scarcely visible,
\nThe cornice but a mound.<\/p>\n

Since then ‘t is centuries; but each
\nFeels shorter than the day
\nI first surmised the horses’ heads
\nWere toward eternity.<\/p>\n

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was one of the most original and influential poets in American history. Though she lived a largely reclusive life in Amherst, Massachusetts, she produced a body of work consisting of nearly 1,800 poems that contained unique creative expressions and broke from conventional writing styles of the 19th century. Dickinson was ahead of her time, pioneering unconventional capitalization and punctuation that gave her poems deeper layers of meaning. Though less than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime, Dickinson sent hundreds of poems to friends and family via letters. After her death, her pioneering style and mastery of themes like life, death, love, nature and spirituality cemented her place as one of the most important figures in American letters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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