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Question 1

‘He kindly stopped for me’

Answer 1

conceit of the carriage ride = motif personified Death as speaker’s ‘kindly’ speaker = sentimental expectation of delivering the speaker (bride) home (heaven)

Question 2

‘He kindly stopped for me’

Answer 2

conceit of the carriage ride = motif personified Death as speaker’s ‘kindly’ speaker = sentimental expectation of delivering the speaker (bride) home (heaven)

Question 3

‘He slowly drove- He knew no haste)

Answer 3

regular iambic pulse and assonance ‘o’ = predictable forward momentum od death’s carriage + speaker soothed
= speaker’s acceptance of death = inevitable and easeful

Question 4

‘school of youth’ + ‘strove at recess- in the ring-“

Answer 4

metaphor of speaker’s youth and rhotic alliteration + verb connotations = life effort fulness.

Question 5

‘gazing grain’ ‘setting sun’ and ‘Labour and leisure’

Answer 5

personification transfer the speakers setting onto environment. sibilance and metaphor of death’s arrival= moment of death=
soothing + represents mortal life = all above death is welcome release from ‘labour and leisure’; of mortal life

Question 6

‘ring’ + ‘immortality’

Answer 6

cyclical image of ‘ring’ may represent imminent ascension of christian afterlife + Dickinson’s possible faith in Christian transcendence

Question 7

‘Or rather- He passed us’

Answer 7

foreshortened tetrameter line and speaker = object = jars the iambic rhythm and tonal shift because speaker increasing equivocating (ambiguous language inc)
sp looses agency as ‘pass over;= speaker’s loss of sun rays (ie life)

Question 8

‘quivering’ and ‘chill’

Answer 8

sharp assonance = speakers vulnerable to death (icy and cold)

Question 9

‘barely visible’ + ‘House’+‘swelling’

Answer 9

Destab. sentimental motif (heaven →graveyard; carriage →hearse; House →grave)Connotations →↓ sentimentality re death + ↑ dread →suffocation in death / abject embodied reality of death

Question 10

‘pauses’ +‘-in the ground –

Answer 10

Change to sp’smovt sp. no longer moving, only ‘pausing’ in horror
Concrete separation w. caesura +
dashIdentical rhyme= sense entrapment in ground + nothingness suggests D’s possview __that death = sep.off time, consciousness, afterlife, nature etc

Question 11

‘ –tis centuries’

Answer 11

Present tense= may seem reassuring, as if persona speaking from heaven

Question 12

Horsesheads were toward Eternity

Answer 12

Anticlosuraldash h/w dash may = hyphen connecting worlds (mortal + immortal)Ormay = final break from time + consciousness∴reader cannot know if spin heaven or in ground.