Emily Dickenson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10,1830 in the quiet community of Amherst, Massachusetts (Davidson 247). She was the second born to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson (Davidson 247). Her older brother Austin and her younger sister Lavina lived in a reserved family headed by their authoritative father (Davidson 247). Emily’s mother was not “emotionally accessible,” thought out there lives (Davidson 247). Their parents weren’t involved in their children’s lives. One thing that their parents did …

…it saw anything. What the eye did see is permanently sealed away from the living world. Since the poem is from an observer’s view and the observer is living he or she can not find out until his or her eyes close (they die). The answer is hidden until then. The poem “Because I could not stop for Death” is a representation of the passage from this world of the living to the afterlife.