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Dickinson and the Personification of Death — Homework
Reread "Because I could not stop for Death" aloud at least once before answering.
- 1.Compare Dickinson's personification of Death to Poe's in "The Masque of the Red Death." What is the same, and what is different?
- 2.Define common (hymn) meter.
- 3.Choose one dash from the poem and explain what pause or emphasis it creates.
- 4.What does the poem's final stanza suggest about how time feels after crossing into eternity?
- 5.In five or more sentences, explain why picturing death as a courteous companion might feel more unsettling, not less, than picturing it as violent.
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