Dickinson's Imagery

Emily Dickinson's poetry displays a fange of perception and emotion that few poets have matched. not only does she approach her subjects in unique ways, but her use of language itself is hightly idiosyncratic. Her images startle by their unexpectedness and their supreme rightness as well. For her, death cna be courteous or terrifying, it can be perceived through what the dead perosn has left undone. In her poem, "Because I could not stop for …

…the poem's central idea. Emily Dickinson has brought to light the poem's central idea. Dickinson explains the incomprehensible progression of life and unravels its complexity with figurative symbols. The author creates a scene in such a way that the mental pictures of sight, feeling, and sound come back to life. The imagery begins the moment she invites her reader into the "Carriage." The imagery in this poem is undoubtedly representing a life approaching its end.