Question

Read this excerpt from Emily Dickinson's poem "712" ("Because I could not stop for Death"):

Answer 1

The correct option is $\boxed{\text{A. Personification}}$.

Further Explanation:

The poem "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" has been written by the poet Emily Dickinson. Throughout the poem, 'death' has been personified as a human being. Death's appearance and its nature have been personified as a man of gentle nature. He arrived at the house of the poet to be her carriage driver. He came up to her house on his carriage. The journey with death as a man and on his carriage was a very different experience for the port altogether. In her journey, she came up with several experiences which expressed the setting of her life towards her grave. Death was a very gentleman in his approach and he drove the poet very gently towards her grave.

Emily Dickinson has portrayed the image of death in a much positive manner. She presents death to be gentleman and friendly. Personification is the figurative language in which an innate object or abstract ideas are presented to possess human qualities. In the poem, 'death' has been personified as having the qualities of a gentleman in it. Poet has used this figurative device to draw a different and a positive picture of death. She describes her feelings as death drives her towards her end of earthly life. Personification is used to portray a different picture of the human qualities by adding them to the non-human aspects. It gives some freedom to the writer to depict the picture of the non-human things in terms of human qualities.

Emily Dickinson's portrayal of death in a positive note presents different aspects of death. She describes death to be calm and slow when he was driving her to her grave.

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Answer details:

Grade: Senior School

Subject: English Literature

Chapter: "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson

Key words: Because I Could Not Stop For Death, Emily Dickinson, Personification, death, carriage, grave

Answer 2

The answer is A: personification.

Personification is the representation of an abstract idea or a nonhuman subject in the guise of a human form or quality. In this poem by Emily Dickinson, she personifies death as the rider of the carriage taking the narrator of the poem towards her grave, but also beyond that, towards immortality and eternity.