Life After Death

Because I Could Not Stop For Death is about one of life's few certainties: death. This paper shows how the poem supports the authors belief in life after death.
Life After Death
Emily Dickinson's poem, Because I Could Not Stop For Death is about one of life's few certainties: death. In Because I Could Not Stop For Death, we are being told the tale of a woman who is being taken away by Death. This is the reader's first indication that this poem believes in an afterlife. In most religions, where there is a grim reaper, this entity will deliver a person's soul to another place, usually a…