Because Death

1、Because I Could Not Stop for Death -By 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. 因為我不能停下來等待死亡，他親切地停下等我；馬車中只有

2、我們倆還有“不朽”同行。我們慢慢行駛,他知道無需匆忙，而我已經(jīng)放下我的勞作，和我的懶散，為他的殷勤有禮。We passed the school, where children strove At recess, in the ring; We passed the fields of gazing grain, We passed the setting sun. Or rather, he passed us; The dews grew quivering and chill, For only gossamer my gown,My tippet only tuller.我們經(jīng)過學(xué)校，

3、正是課間休息孩子們正在游戲，喧鬧；我們經(jīng)過注目凝視的谷物的田野，經(jīng)過西沉的落日。確切地說是他經(jīng)過了我們；那露水引來了冷顫寒氣，因我的禮服僅為纖細的薄紗織物 我的披肩-不過是絹網(wǎng)而已 We paused before a house that seemed A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice in the ground. Since then tis Centuries and yet Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses

4、heads Were toward eternity. 我們在一座房舍前停下似乎是隆起的地面；幾乎看不見屋頂，屋檐只是個土堆。從那時已有幾個世紀；從那時已有幾個世紀；但每一個但每一個感覺都比那一天還短感覺都比那一天還短那是我第一次猜出那是我第一次猜出馬頭朝向永恒。馬頭朝向永恒。 Something about Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family wi

5、th strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during her lifetime. And many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.Some

6、thing about the poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a lyric poem on the theme of death. It contains six stanzas, each stanza with four lines. (A poem like this is called a quatrain.) The poem was first published in 1890 in Poems, Series 1, a collection of Miss Dickinsons poems that was edit

7、ed by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The editors titled the poem Chariot. Theme of the poem The overall theme of the poem seems to be that death is not to be feared since it is a natural part of the endless cycle of nature. Her view of death may also reflect he

8、r personality and religious beliefs. On the one hand, as a spinster, she was somewhat reclusive and introspective, tending to dwell on loneliness and death. On the other hand, as a Christian and a Bible reader, she was optimistic about her ultimate fate and appeared to see death as a friend. Charact

9、ers Speaker: A woman who speaks from the grave. She says she calmly accepted death. In fact, she seemed to welcome death as a suitor whom she planned to marry. Death: Suitor who called for the narrator to escort her to eternity. Immortality: A passenger in the carriage. Children: Boys and girls at p

10、lay in a schoolyard. They symbolize early life. Symbols .In the fourth stanza, the school symbolizes the morning of life; Children, They symbolize early life. The grain, symbolizes the midday of life and the working years; The setting sun, symbolizes the evening of life and the death of life. Rhyme

11、Dickinson occasionally uses internal rhyme, as in the following lines: The carriage held but just ourselves (line 3) We slowly drove, he knew no haste (line 5) We passed the fields of gazing grain (line 11) The dews grew quivering and chill (line 14)Alliteration Because I could not stop for Death (line 1) he knew no haste (line 5) My labor, and my leisure too (line 7) At recess, in the ring gazing grain (line 11) setting sun (line 12) Fo