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Because I Could Not Stop For Death Literary Devices
As you might wonder why might my title name is this. In these poems I have read them and they all have deeper meaning .With this deeper meaning many of the authors of these poems are kind of off but these poems symbolizes the journey in my eyes because most of them has to deal with a process of death or the process of the afterlife.
In,” Because I could not stop for Death”, would be considered the journey because of the story relating to the spiritual life after death .The life after death is describe as little as detail .But what I can infer that the spiritual life is like a ride.In stanza 2-3,”We slowly...only Tulle”.As you can tell that my evidence of parragraph explains a lot of the spirit world .One deep question I would like to ask
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The literary device that is being used is juxtaposition .In stanza 1 states,”To say...would suffice”.In the poem I realize more and more how their poem relates to how fire and ice are opposites but they both causes destruction. The author wanted to tell the reader about all regrets before it's too late . This how this poem uses literary devices such as juxtaposition. Second to last this poem is as symbolic to the journey .The reason being is because the story is about a man and a woman who lost a child at a young age and they both are dealing with death of a child which has a process that they took to actually try to get over the child .In paragraph 6 explains how their feelings affecting each other . At the end of the story it still explains how each person have feelings dealing with death. Last but not least this poem is similar to the other poems . “Stopping by the woods on a snowing evening”, refers to a situation leading up to death . This uses literary devices because it uses imagery .In stanza 2 states,”My little...The year”.This piece of evidence explains that how the author uses imagery to better explain the poem

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