Poetic Devices
The entire poem is an extended _____.
Metaphore
The poem recounts the narrator’s journey towards _____.
Death
When did Dickinson start writing?
As a teenager.
What is Gossamer, Tippet, and Tule?
Light, thin, fabrics.
In the poem, who is Death personified as?
A carriage driver.
What is Dickinson‘s outlook on her Death?
Accepting, calm.
Considering her choice of subject for this poem, Dickinson probably led a life of_______.
Depression and seclusion.
In the word tetrameter in iambic tetrameter, what number does tetra- represent?
4
Does this poem have a defined rhyme scheme?
No.
What is Dickinson‘s belief regarding what happens after death?
There is an afterlife where one lives for eternity.
In what century was Emily Dickinson born?
19th
In which section of the poem (1, 2, or 3) does the author seem transition from life to death?
2
How many iambic pairs are in this this line of the poem?
”We slowly drove—He knew no haste
4
Mortality, Eternity, Immortality.
What was the cause of Dickinson’s death?
Heart failure.
what qualities does the character of Death have in this poem.
Death is civil, patient and kind.