Answer:
Chosen poem: Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson.
<em>Because I could not stop for Death –
</em>
<em>He kindly stopped for me –
</em>
<em>The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
</em>
<em>And Immortality.
</em>
<em>
</em>
<em>We slowly drove – He knew no haste
</em>
<em>And I had put away
</em>
<em>My labor and my leisure too,
</em>
<em>For His Civility –
</em>
<em>
</em>
<em>We passed the School, where Children strove
</em>
<em>At Recess – in the Ring –
</em>
<em>We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
</em>
<em>We passed the Setting Sun –
</em>
<em>
</em>
<em>Or rather – He passed Us –
</em>
<em>The Dews drew quivering and Chill –
</em>
<em>For only Gossamer, my Gown –
</em>
<em>My Tippet – only Tulle –
</em>
<em>
</em>
<em>We paused before a House that seemed
</em>
<em>A Swelling of the Ground –
</em>
<em>The Roof was scarcely visible –
</em>
<em>The Cornice – in the Ground –
</em>
<em>
</em>
<em>Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
</em>
<em>Feels shorter than the Day
</em>
<em>I first surmised the Horses' Heads
</em>
<em>Were toward Eternity –
</em>
<em></em>
Explanation:
As we know, one of the characteristics of modernist poetry is free verse, so I will rewrite the poem in a modern and free verse form:
<em>Because I could not find death
</em>
<em>He came looking for me
</em>
<em>In the carriage it was just the two of us
</em>
<em>And immortality
</em>
<em>The road was slow, without rushing to death
</em>
<em>I abandoned my pleasures and my work to respect his chivalry
</em>
<em>We passed a school, where there were children playing
</em>
<em>We go through fields of crops and the sunset
</em>
<em>Or rather, the sunset passed over us
</em>
<em>Dew formed and began to get cold
</em>
<em>And I was only wearing a dress and a cape made of tulle
</em>
<em>We stood in front of a home that was actually a grave on the ground
</em>
<em>I could barely see the ceiling
</em>
<em>Centuries have passed and time continues to pass
</em>
<em>It seems like a short time from the day
</em>
<em>I realized that those horses carried me into eternity</em>
