Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Because I could not stop for death

When were/are you afraid of death?

30 comments:

Endry said...

When my precious thing is taken from me by force and I can't do a thing to retrieve it, that will be my death.
If it is the real death means that my soul is no longer within my body, then I've experienced once this year (once is more than enough, thanks).
It was new year and I laid helplessly on my bed with burning fever. I could barely move a finger, even opening eyes took me a great deal of effort. And my lil' bro just stared, stood still, frozen on spot, just great~~ What a cute lil' bro I have, I wished I had extra energy to strangle him to death, brought him along with me to God-knows-where place. But it turned out to be better coz it seemed like he regretted his previous action (if you could say that stand still was an action) and become my slave from about 2 weeks until I was fully recovered LOL~~

Mona said...

when there is no hope anymore.. everything is nothing.. no future... no happiness... even no sadness... all that I have is only emptiness..

Yasmine (11407015) said...

when I was very sick and in that time I felt no hope to get a better condition.

Maryo 11407020 said...

when I make a mistake, I'm afraid of everything so does Death....
I think when somebody makes a mistake, they can not defend their self, because basically there is a truth that stated:
"we will brave against a problem in our live if we are not wrong or we are in the right line...."
So, there is nothing to be afraid of Death, if we set our life greatly in a good purpose to our self and the other people....

Erdina~ said...

-When I think about my life, I haven't accomplished some things yet.I have some promises with mom and haven't done it yet.

-when I think about my family.. I don't want to become a burden, I don't want my family become deeply depressed by my death.

-When I think about the life after death.. From my point of view, when human died, his soul separates from his body, and entered different world where he has not remembered anything about his life before,that means he forgotten about his family and his friends who are loyalty accompany him in his life before. Thus, I'm afraid.. after death I cannot remember people who I loved so much, my friends and family >.<

ODILIA / 11409045 said...

C.A.ODILIA W / 11409045
I want 2 ask to Jessica & eiren group that talk about analysis 'I Could not Stop for Death'. One of you said that actually she's not afraid in facing the death (calmly accepted the death/ 'He kindly...'. Do you think that the author really not afraid toward the death, since most people do often pretend to themselves (such as pretend to be brave when they are scare, happy when they're sad)? what do you think? Please explain..thankz a lot...^^

Deviany S.A. (11409028) said...

Deviany S.A. (11409028)
I want to ask Jessica, Eirene, and Fenny's group about their analysis about 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death'.
Is there any general message/purpose from the author to the readers in this poem?
Thank you =)

Delviana K.S. (11409031) said...

I have a question for Jessica's group:
Throughout the stanzas, we discover that Death and the speaker do not talk to each other. How would you interpret the meaning of silence here in relation to the message of this poem?

Thank you :)

Felicia G./11409019 said...

Felicia G. (11409019)
I want to ask to Jessica, Fenny, and Eirene's group about the poem. In this poem, it shows that the speaker doesn't afraid of Death, then why she said that she could not stop for death?

Eirene.D (11409049) said...

Eirene.D (11409049)
I will take the Odi's question, in this poem, the speaker is not afraid at all. since she feels that death is something natural. If we see the third and fourth stanza, the speaker wants to describe the life stages of human being to that so called as death. In the third stanza, the speaker said about the landscapes which she passed together with death in the carriage, these landscape actually refer to the stages of life from childhood, adulthood until the end of life. Meanwhile, in the fourth stanza is mainly about the end of her journey to the resting place. So, she emphasizes that death seems to be the part of our life stages and there's nothing to worry about death. Also, in the last stanza in the first and second line, the speaker says that "since 'tis centuries, but each feels shorter than a day" which give the meaning of the speaker has actually been passed away century ago, but the very first day when she met her death feels like just yesterday(feels shorter than a day). This indicates that the speaker takes the day when she passed away as something that joyful, so she remembers of that day. It is the same with us, when we have a happy memory about something, we love to remember it on and on. Then, we also tend to feel the thing(joyful experience) has just happened yesterday while it is actually years ago. So, Odi, the speaker of this poem does not feel afraid even pretend to do so.
Thank you :D

Monica (11409042) said...

I have a question for Jessica's group:
From the comment you have given to Odi's question, I want to add something. Is the poem really express that the speaker does not afraid of death or the speaker pretends that she does not afraid of it? Because for me, from the title of this poem the speaker looks like powerless/unable to run from death. Through the human life's stages we know that day by day we are getting older. We have experienced happy and sad time together in our lives and it is true that we cannot stop for death. So, how can your group relate the title of this poem with the speaker's feeling in this poem? Thank you ^^

Eirene.D (11409049) said...

So, Monica, actually the title of this poem conveys the meaning that we can not stop for death, there is still a life after the death which is eternal one. Telling about the title, I think we better relate it with the lines and the whole meaning of the poem. That is right that the speaker does not have the power over the death as in the second stanza, line 1 "we slowly drove-he knew no haste". This line implies that the one who has the power is death while the speaker enjoys the every moment together with death, that is why the speaker puts the word " we".
Moreover, the whole meaning of this poem actually wants to tell the joy being with death, for me, if the speaker is afraid of death she would not tell about the day when she firstly met death, talking about her afterlife such as: the loneliness in the graveyard and so on. It is the same with us, if we are happy being together with someone, we love to tell the very day when we meet him/her. Besides, in the second line of the last stanza, she said that "since 'tis century, yet it feels shorter than a day", if we are afraid of something or in the bad moment, we feel it happens so long, otherwise when we are happy or in the joyful moment we feel that it happens shortly. The same thing as the speaker, she feels like it just happened while actually it has been hundred year ago. So, that is true the speaker does not have power over the death, yet it does not mean that she is afraid, she is kind of accepting it as the part of life which bring her into the afterlife. Thus "Could not stop here" has two meaning. First, the death could not stop as it does not "stop" in the very minute we died but it lasts until we meet the eternity and second, "I could not stop for death", the speaker could not stop thinking about death since she enjoys or loves it instead of trying to stop it from being happened because she is afraid. Thx :)

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