Select the correct answer. What does the carriage symbolize in this excerpt from Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for
Death”? Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held 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 – A. immortality B. fate C. life D. death
The poem "Because I Could Not For Death" is about the journey of the poet towards her grave. In the poem, Emily Dickinson had personified death as a carriage and a driver. She says that death had arrived at her home to pick her up for the journey to her grave. For her, death seemed to be much polite and sweet. She explains her journey to her grave in a very thoughtful and kind manner.
This question belongs to the poem<em> "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"</em> written by Emily Dickinson and published in 1890. In this poem, she describes her journey from beyond the grave.
The correct answer is option D: In this pasage, the carriage symbolizes death. It refers to the write's own carraige of death.
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