Analyse af Emily Dickinsons 'Because I could not stop for Death'

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was a successful, American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts into a family with strong community ties. During her early years Emily was witty and sociable, but from her mid-twenties she began to withdraw from the outside world. She lived a mostly introverted and isolated life.

Emily Dickinson was troubled from a young age by the "deepening menace" of death, especially the deaths of those who were close to her. Her behavior began to change. She didn’t leave the Homestead unless it was absolutely necessary and as early as 1867, she began to talk to visitors from the other side of a door rather than speaking to them face to face and when she was seen, she was usually clothed in white.

Emily Dickinson studied botany from the age of nine and, along with her sister, tended the garden at Homestead and was known more widely as a gardener, perhaps, than as a poet. Emily Dickinson was a Christian and a Bible reader, but her poetry often reveals a painful inner struggle that may have been caused by religious doubt. The subjects of her poems are love, nature, religion and mortality. Emily Dickinson died at the age of 55.