the uncertainties that die Either such is the eternal inevitability of
'
Death
'
that he himself in
happens when
ppl
• =
surround what way ,
' '
haste
)
no
WE
w/ a personified
'
takes ride Death
'
in his
woman
carriage He doesn't need to
•
a
hurry to make death happen =
b. cause =
automatic fact
↳ likelihood in the afterlife
by all heading towards her place of life
•
poem's matter -
of -
fact tone (which underplays the fantastical
nature of what is happening ) r
establishes this journey as
's
smtg beyond spur control
The carriage fstzas)
• ' ' '
fields
'
stops by a school ,
and perhaps spies own grave
represent diff stages of. life
, starting from childhood 1-
preceding like
>
Either her death is presented as smthng natural , the journey itself to the inevitable final destination
way ,
strange } inescapable
4
ans
•
The opening lines make this clear :
-
the spur herself couldn't
'
stop for death
'
Death , Immortality and final stanza =
filled w
ambiguity + contradiction
but '
Death
'
has every intention of stopping Eternity •
spur explains that the carriage
passed these sights
' "
her centuries
ago , but that the entire time that =
clasped
I
'
'
presented smtg of
gentleman kindly stopping his =
can climb in also feels '
shorter than
'
a ; carriage a
Day
→
a certain comfort with / at least acceptance of
, dying
>
In the
grand scheme of eternity
-
hundreds of
yrs
entails remains mysterious might the
-
what this
even as
process actually feel like a blip on radar
life measured by
'
Also in the carriage is immortality
-
time BUT
'
=
in death the perception
,
•
not clear if another personified figure / smtng more abstract of time ceases to exist
5
-
Indeed it's in , large part this inconclusiveness =
poem
'
Immortality
'
ambiguos powerful
•
=
} calm treatment of
' '
•
presence =
could support Christian idea of afterlife
-
On one hand ,
Death's kind the
'
DR contrast ,
'
Immortality somewhat ironic >
hinting at the woman →
signal comfort of a Christian afterlife
, by =
permanent
> entrance to heaven -1
nothingness that awaits in
eternity in God 's
presence
death But
darkly plays w/ ideas of immortality
-
-1
more
, way
eternity =
read as nothing more than dark
nothingness of
death that life , when it's gone , =
gone for good
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