Dickenson, Hardy & Johnson

In Dickinson’s “Death” we see the use of imagery to make death, a feared concept, into something “gentlemanly.” Because of the speaker’s belief in the immortality of the soul and the keeping of the promise of Christ and Christianity, we see imagery where death becomes quite gentlemanly like because in reality death is only a harbinger of eternal afterlife to a good Christian. As the speaker says in the opening stanza she “can not stop for Death” so “He kindly stopped for me” (Dickinson 1). She could not stop for death because of fear of losing life as she knows it, so death kindly picks her up and treats her to an elegant carriage ride wherein she is dressed in the garb of an angel. It is only once she has died and is on her journey that she realizes there was nothing to fear because her destination is eternity and immortality of the soul, “Since then ‘tis centuries, and yet/Feels shorter than the day/I first surmised the horses’ heads/Were toward eternity” (Dickinson 1). Thus, death receives positive imagery from Dickinson because she believes it is not a

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