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As I reread this famous poem. I see it as a reflection of living. No one can escape death. It is, in the end, our destination. To me, it says that the world will continue long after we pass away. Whatever we do in life will be revisited in death. The author seems to reveal that this is her vision of life after death. That life will continue through eternity,
posted by
BearcatMike
on May 30, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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Aba Brother
Hello, dear Aba brother! I hope it isn't too hot where you are living. I so enjoyed reading your analysis this poem by Emily Dickinson. It does make very good sense. I found the poem very intriguing. Here are a few of my thoughts on the poem.
Dickinson writes that she could not stop for Death, etc., but it seems to me that she would have had time aplenty to stop for Death had she a mind to do so (but who does have a mind to do that) so she may not be referring to time as the reason she could not stop. In a sense Ms. Dickinson was actually already stopped for Death, since she didn't leave her house or as some say, her room, for the last 20 years of her life. Therefore, this could mean that to Dickinson, Death would have HAD to come to meet her but she would never stop working, thinking, until then.
If I were to attempt to write a poem like this, perhaps it would be seeded in a flight of fancy after a visit, mental or actual, to the grave of a person close to me. Then the poem could continue to write itself in the direction that Dickinson went with it.
The fact that Ms. Dickinson was said to always have worn white may come into play in this poem when she writes of her garment(s) and feeling a chill as would in her mind, a shade. She faces Death in this poem if she must and as she must, perhaps as she had at other times in her life. To me, she is the speaker; a specter; she is the child, the lover; the loved and the alone; she is alive, mortal and eternally timeless. Yet the sun has set for her in this poem. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on May 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Well I can't say I saw a ghost in the UK in my friends very old house in Ludlow; But there was a presence with me. A Gypsy for sure. I discovered the foundations were mentioned in the "Doomsday Book." and at times it had been a home, a stable, a home again and yes once a Gypsy woman had lived there before it was rebuilt again into a two story home. Great thick walls and one of a line of terraces in high street Ludlow not far from the Castle where the Little Princes were until they were taken to the London Tower and disappeared.
posted by
Kabu
on May 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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Good afternoon
If one is to believe in ghosts, I have always believed in those souls who pass unprepared for it or suddenly are the spirits who continue to complete unfinished business. Death is one of the stages in our life's journey we as mortals understand from a very young age; my take on her poems regarding death is that Emily understands death is inevitable, but not necessarily the end of our spirit, which lives on. 
posted by
Sherri_G
on May 29, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Re: Anib....
.....I hadn't read this poem for a long, long time and I enjoyed being reminded of it and reading your interpretation of it. I'm not like you in working to interpret poems, I just enjoy them and letting them wash over me and take them as a whole.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 29, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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