American Icons: Because I Would Not Stop for Death
After Emily Dickinson died, her sister found nearly two thousand poems in her bureau, all ready for publication. In a surprising number of those poems, Emily Dickinson was writing from beyond the grave. For our series on American Icons, WBUR’s Sean Cole took a closer look at Dickinson’s legendary poem, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”
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