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Words of the Day
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an
American Poet.
The poem was first published under
the title “ The Chariot” and later on
It’s known “Because I Could Not Stop
For Death”

The poem was published in 1890.

The poem has regular rhythm and

using iambic meter.
 The Chariot
Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality
We slowly drove, he knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too
For his civility
We passed the school where children played
Their lessons scarcely done
We passed the fields of gazing grain
We passed the setting sun
We paused before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground
The roof was scarcely visible
The cornice but a mound.
Since then 't is centuries; but each
Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
What can you say
about the poem?
 What do you think
the speaker wants
to convey?
To show that all human beings will
pass away eventually. Also, the
speaker wants to express that
death is gentle, kind and polite.
Who do you think
will picked up the
speaker?
DEATH
“And I had put away” / “my
labor and my leisure too” –
What is meant by these lines?
The narrator will never work again
or participate in any other activity.
Who is the companion of
the speaker in travelling
into the afterlife?
No one except the death who
pick her up.
Does the speaker have
struggles in travelling
after death?
No! The speaker even
enjoyed the ride.
Tasks you are going to do:

a. Compose a song that has something to do or

related with the poem.

b. Choose any stanza you would like to perform

and dramatize it by adding some dialogues on it.
Thank you
for
Listening…
 Cornice
The decorative top of a building or a column.
The condition of being larger than normal.
The quality or state of someone or something that
will never die or forgotten.
 Swelling
A large vehicle with four wheels that is pulled by a
horse and that carries people.
The condition of being larger than normal.
The quality or state of someone or something that
will never die or forgotten.
 Gazing
Almost not at all.
A thought or idea based on scanty evidence.
To look at someone or something in a steady way
and usually for a long time.
 Surmised
A thought or idea based on scanty evidence.
Polite actions and words.
A large vehicle with four wheels that is pulled by a
horse and that carries people.
 Carriage
The decorative top of a building or a column.
A large vehicle with four wheels that is pulled by a
horse and that carries people.
To look at someone or something in a steady way
and usually for a long time.
 Civility
The quality or state of someone or something that
will never die or forgotten.
The decorative top of a building or a column.
Polite actions and words.
 Scarcely
A thought or idea based on scanty evidence.

Almost not at all.

The condition of being larger than normal.
 Immortality
To look at someone or something in a steady way
and usually for a long time.
The quality or state of someone or something that
will never die or forgotten.
Almost not at all.