Emily Dickinson Because I Could Not Stop For Death

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There are many different and interesting I have learned from studying the works of The Enlightenment and Romanticism Periods. From death to religion, Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Emily Dickinson it has given me a new outlook on Literature.
Rousseau’s autobiography puts emphasis on psychological development, the subjective, individual, and sensory experiences of the world was the work was responsible for him being called “Father of Romanticism.” Rousseau argued that human nature is originally good and a child will become corrupt only if outside forces of social evil are allowed to contaminate the world of the child. He believed that children should learn through experience and not book knowledge. He viewed childhood as an independent period different …show more content…

who picks her up in a carriage and carries her to her grave. It describes her journey to death. I believe she is trying to tell the reader that in death there is no haste. It teaches us that death is not to be feared. That death is not an end to life but the beginning of a new journey. Death should not be sought after however it should not be something to afraid of.
In Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” when the voice is speaking of dying, he is referring to death as signing away what he would have left to give of what at least be worth giving away. It examines the nature of death and what people expect to encounter when they die. I believe the fly’s buzz represents the world left behind.
In Alfred Tennyson’s “Tithonus” Tithonus comforts Eos that if she frees him and lets him die, that she will still see him or his grave. He has no substance because he is a gray shadow if he has eternal life or is buried. Immortality has Tithonus's wanting to grow old and die and escape the frustrations of life. Death takes man into a world from where he cannot …show more content…

She is someone with a low social standing and presumed to be ignorant because of this. In the story she is smarter and more reasonable than Orgon and shows that no matter what social class you come from it does not determine your level of intelligence.
In the poem “The Chimney Sweeper” (Experience) The boy aims his anger at the organized religion of the church. This implies that organized religion is built upon innocent pain and implies that social problems are closely connected with spiritual problems. He explains that while his parents are in church he suffers for them, “And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King / Who make up a heaven of our misery.” He blames God, as Creator responsible for the unfair world and His will to create it with all its evil.
“The Chimney Sweeper" (Innocence) suggests that religion is sometimes a contributor to a child suffering. The angel tells Tom to work hard at his awful job so he can earn God's love. Tom Dacre's sad but beautiful dream is used to demonstrate how the boys' religious beliefs keep them enclosed in their terrible lifestyle, instead of allowing them to rise above

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