The packet for the year 1863, contained 140 poems. These poems are two thirds of the entire body of her poetry. “Because I could not stop for Death” was part of her packet poems, verses written from 1858-1865, the years of great creativeness for Dickinson. With enigmas of incredible insight, she repeatedly gives relationship to the ideas and experiences which exist in time, but never are a part of it (Johnson viii-ix). During the early 1860s, Dickinson had fully developed her, “flood subjects,” on the themes of living and dying. was still fighting the Civil War in 1863, so Dickinson was living in a time of violence and of change. The lyric poem personifies Death as a gentleman caller who takes Dickinson on a carriage ride to her own grave. This edition was assembled and edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson and was titled, “The Chariot.” Johnson’s The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson) was written in 1863 and first published posthumously in Poems in 1890 by Roberts Brothers of Boston. We passed the School, where Children stroveĮmily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death,” (#712 in Thomas H.
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