nds. In a sense, it is good that she is leaving all her responsibilities and work behind, but it is sad that she has to leave all her friends and good times behind also.The line “We passed the school, where Children strove/At Recess—in the Ring—/We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—/We passed the Setting Sun—/Or rather—He passed Us—,” goes into all of the sights that go through her head before she dies (9-13). When she sees the children fighting during recess it is almost as if she sees all of her responsibilities and things that bothered her in life as childish. There are so many stupid worries in life that people should not take them to the grave. She is realizing this and forgets of her worries. The next sight is the “Fields of Gazing Grains”. This is where she realized that she was leaving the world. “The Gazing Grains” are like people looking at her and saying goodbye. Her last sight is when she sees the carriage pass the sun. This represents her passing away or her life on earth passing to another stage.Finally, when she says “We paused before a House that seemed/A swelling of the Ground—/The Roof was scarcely visible—/The Cornice—in the Ground,” she reached her death and could see her grave on the ground (17-20). This is the point where the poem goes back to the present tense, which according to the speaker is centuries away from that day. Not only is it Centuries away but those centuries feel shorter than that day of her death. Dying according to Dickinson is a slow process. Dickinson uses several techniques to make the reader read this poem as slow as Death’s carriage travels. The first technique I noticed was the dashes that separated every line. These dashes are there for a reason. They are there to make the reader pause and read the poem slow. The next technique is that the rhyme scheme follows an ABCB ...
