Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “712.” The poem is written in a tone where I find the details somewhat difficult to analyze. The characters in this poem include Death, or the gentleman, and the person whom death has come to take. Dickinson’s changes her style of writing, by the use of diction; images and tone consistently support themes of death and religion throughout her poetry. After looking quickly at some of her other works of art, death plays a big part in the other poems too. I don’t know her infatuation with death but she loves to write about it.
Dickinson uses capitalization in an unconventional manner, often arranging lines of verse in unusual ways I think it’s effective because it forces the reader to stop and think. While the use of this unique technique may seem to be random and nonsensical, I feel that Dickinson used it in order to emphasize the meaning and importance in her poetry. The point of view in this poem changes from the beginning to the end. It begins with Death, presented as a man or gentleman, comes to take the author away from life. This is presented in the opening line, “Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me.” This maybe meaning that death was attempting to court her. The point of view changes when the tulle is mentioned, where as a tulle is a sheer silk or nylon net that is used in wedding veils, which signifies that death is more permanent, and has come to take her not court her.
The Term Paper on Emily Dickinson’s Death Poems
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I believe that setting takes place in a vehicle, possibly in a horse. She states, “We slowly drove” She then states that they pass a school and a house. This also makes me to believe that they are in a vehicle due to the changes in scenery. The plot begins with Death courting her. He picks her up and takes her past a school with children, then takes her past fields of grain, and the setting sun. These could possibly be lash backs of her life.
Fifth stanza the “house” is a metaphor for the coffin and “the swelling of the ground” and barely visible roof produce the image of a burial and overgrowth.” This may be a crypt where she is to be buried. In the last lines, the author then expresses that centuries feel shorter than a day. When faced with an eternity of death. “Since then-’tis Centuries-and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads, Were toward Eternity.” A major symbol in this poem is the tulle. The tulle in this poem represents eternity and forever, meaning Death has come to take her, not court her. Another major symbol I found was the house which represents a crypt where Death’s passenger is to be buried.
The theme of this poem could be that death is not something that you necessarily see coming. It also addresses that when you are faced with death, it is for eternity, and that you should treasure your precious time on earth.
