1. Identify as many
literary elements as you can find in the poem. Refer to the list provided for you.
2. Does
the poem have a rhythm? Does
it rhyme?
3. Does the poem fit
the pattern of a traditional poem?
4. What is your gut
reaction to the poem? Do any lines stand out?
5. What is the meaning
of the poem? Write one paragraph.
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily
Dickinson
Because I
could not stop for Death,
He kindly
stopped for me;
The carriage
held but just ourselves
And
Immortality.
We slowly drove, he knew no haste,
And I had put
away
My labor, and
my leisure too,
For his civility.
We passed the
school where children played,
Their lessons
scarcely done;
We passed the
fields of gazing grain,
We passed the
setting sun.
We paused
before a house that seemed
A swelling of
the ground;
The roof was
scarcely visible,
The cornice but a mound.
Since then 't
is centuries; but each
Feels shorter
than the day
I first
surmised the horses' heads
Were toward
eternity.