Because I could not stop for death,

he kindly stopped for me;

the carriage house 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

At wrestling in a ring;

We passed the fields of days in grain,

We passed the settling sun.

We pause before a horse that seemed

Is swelling of the ground;

The roof was secretly 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 towards eternity.




Describe some general characteristics of Dickinson‘s poetry write a 2-4 sentence response