The poem Because I Could Not Stop for death by
Dickerson was difficult for me to understand or I just was not into it but
either way I really appreciated the poem, and it was definitely my least
favorite. At first I thought the poem talked about a death and wasn’t sure what
the poem meant when it uses “we” a lot and I was actually really confused. What
I got from this was maybe the “we” was the idea of the speaker and death being
“We”. But then why say “He kindly stop from me” speaking about death, when I
think of poems and death I always feel sad and is more of a negative feeling in
poems. This poem I think was about death but maybe in more of a spiritual sense
and the journey of death, everybody is born and everyone has to die and we
should look at death as part of a circle of life and it becomes more accepted. I
think the poem was referring to the phases of life like for example in stanza
two the poem talks about school, recess, and sunset the point in life when
where children and innocent and talks about how centuries go by and the days
feel shorter I think that this was referencing to how time goes by fast. In
death we see are whole life over sort of like a circle and that’s what I got
from this. Lisel Mueller “Hope” was my favorite poem and what I got from this
was it was a poem about Hope and this poem is describing about how hope is in
everything from the trees to the angels to earthworms, hope is in the genius
that invents the future. I love this poem because I feel it is so true, Hope is
important and it is in everything we do and if we didn’t have hope we wouldn’t
have anything.
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