Questions: Emily Dickinson's whole poem can be thought of as one big metaphor. It compares dying to going on a carriage ride with a kind but insistent gentleman - definitely a new and unusual way to look at death. As the carriage passes things a dying person A carriage ride? Sounds inviting to me! has to leave behind (children, fields of grain, even the sun), every new piece of imagery builds on the comparison. Take a look at the second-to-last stanza, where Dickinson again uses figurative language to show what it means to come to an acceptance of death. (A cornice is the very top of a building.) Figurative Language in Poetry We paused before a House that seemed A swelling of the Ground - The Roof was scarcely visible - The Cornice in the Ground - -Emily Dickinson, from Poem 712 In this stanza, Dickinson talks metaphorically about a grave. What does she compare it to?

Transcript text: ican Literature and Composition Sem 1 1 2.1.7 Study: Analyze Poetry More Figurative Language Emily Dickinson's whole poem can be thought of as one big metaphor. It compares dying to going on a carriage ride with a kind but insistent gentleman - definitely a new and unusual way to look at death. As the carriage passes things a dying person A carriage ride? Sounds inviting to mel has to leave behind (children, fields of grain, even the sun), every new plece of Imagery builds on the comparison. Take a look at the second-to-last stanza, where Dickinson again uses figurative language to show what it means to come to an acceptance of death. (A cornice is the very top of a building.) Figurative Language in Poetry We paused before a House that seemed A swelling of the Ground - The Roof was scarcely visible - The Comice in the Ground - 1 -Emily Dickinson, from Poem 712 In this stanza, Dickinson talks metaphorically about a grave. What does she compare it to? Type answer here... 1 of 3 SUBMIT 1. Emily Dickinson, '712', in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, ed, Thomas H. Johnson (Boston: Back Bay, 1976), 350. PREVIOUS 4 of 14 NEXT