American Icons: “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Emily Dickinson‘s fantasy of getting picked up by the grim reaper is a very strange work of art to be standard fare in high school English classes. For our American Icons series, Sean Cole — a poet himself — examines Dickinson’s legendary work, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”
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