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1、DICKINSON'SBECAUSEICOULDNOTSTOPFORDEATHTitle:Dickinson'sBecauseICouldNotStopforDeath.Source:Explicator,Fall91,Vol.50Issue1,p20,2pAuthor:Sha`BecauseICouldNotStopforDeath,'byEmilyDickinson.Theuseofrememberedimagesofthepasttoclarifyinfiniteconceptionsthroughtheestablishmentofadialec
2、ticalrelationshipbetagination,theknoilyDickinsonusesrememberedimagesofthepasttoclarifyinfiniteconceptionsthroughtheestablishmentofadialecticalrelationshipbetagination,theknoutuallydeterminednatureofthefiniteandinfinite.[2]Fromthevieptstoidentifytheeternalporalstandards,asshestate
3、sthat"Centuries"(21)ineternityare"shorterthanthe[earthly]day"(22).LikeorphizingDeathasakindandcivilgentleman,thespeakerparticularizesDeath'scharacteristicsilarly,thefiniteandinfiniteareamalgamatedinthefourthstanza:TheDeer,myGoporalexistence,ergesaderespectivelyof"Gossamer,"acobpo
4、ralcoveringsthatsuggesttransparent,spiritualqualities.Understandingtheinprehensibleoftendependsonanappreciationoftheprogressionofthestagesofexistence.Byrecallingspecificstagesoflifeonearth,thespeakernotonlysettleshertemporalpastbutalsovieahigheraple,asthecarriagegainsaltitudetoma
5、keitsheavenlyapproach,ahouseseemsas"ASmaysymbolizethethreestagesoflife:"School,ayrepresentchildhood;"FieldsofGazingGrain"(11),maturity;and"SettingSun"(12)oldage.Vieinveststheseisolated,ofteninprehensibleeventseaning.[4]Fromhereternalperspective,thespeakerprehendsthatlife,likethe"
6、HorsesHeads"(23),leads"toalgamationandprogressiveorderingofthetemporaleaningfromthelimitationsoflife,alloomentarilytoglimpseauniverseininglydistinctanddiscontinuousstagesofexistenceareholisticallyimplicatedandpurposed.NOTES[1.]OthersilyDickinson'sresponsestodeathincludeRuthMiller
7、(ThePoetryofEmilyDickinson[MiddletoilyDickinson'sPoetry[Chicago,111.:UofChicagoP,1975]);CarolAnneTaylor("KierkegaardandtheIronicVoicesofEmilyDickinson,"JournalofEnglishandGermanPhilology77[1978]:569-81);CharlesAnderson(EmilyDickinson'sPoetry:Staireron(LyricTime(Baltimore:JohnHopk
8、insUP,1979]);BritaLindberg-Seyersted(The