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Essay / Compare Hope is the thing with feathers and because I...
Dickinson does not ask the speaker to complain about death and try to avoid it, instead, she is calm and simply rides death. She sort of has a date with him and drives, taking her time to get where they need to go. When we get to the end, we realize that she's already dead, and that's why she didn't fight, because she was already there. The speaker had accepted what had happened and was reliving the moment when it happened. As expected, when talking about death, it was darker than his poem about hope. This poem was truly able to capture the emotion of death and describe it in a simple to