Question: Close Reading Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death Questions adopted from W. W. Nortons digital educational resources. In stanza 5, the speaker

Close Reading Emily Dickinsons Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Questions adopted from W. W. Nortons digital educational resources.

  1. In stanza 5, the speaker and Death [pause] in front of a house (line 17). How does the speaker describe the house? Where do you think they are?

  1. How long does the speakers carriage ride last? How does the final stanza change your sense of times progression?

  1. Dickinson is famous for her unusual punctuation, especially her use of dashes. How did the dashes in the poem affect your reading and your sense of the poems meter?

  1. What is your first impression of the tone of the poem? Is the speaker comfortable with dying?

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