American Icons: Because I Could Not Stop for Death
After Emily Dickinson died, her sister found nearly 2,000 poems in her bureau — and in many, she imagined herself already dead. Sean Cole took a closer look at Dickinson’s legendary poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”
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