- "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" Analysis
- T-You shouldn't stop whats going on in life for death, death shouldn't be on your mind.
- P-The speaker is talking about how death came and took her.
- C-Personification; the speaker gives death human qualities, "he kindly stopped for me".
- A-The speaker's attitude is dark and serious toward death.
- S-The speaker doesn't want death to take her but at the end she accepts it.(Stanza 2)
- T-Death will always come for you if it is your time.
- T-You have to accept death because it is a part of life.
- "Success is Counted Sweetest" Analysis
- T-Success is a sweet encounter.
- P-Success means more to those who dont succed thann it means to those who do succed.
- C-Paradox;winners can't explain victoryas well as those who lose.
- A-The speaker is serious yet understanding of those who are defeated.
- S-Stanza 9, the speaker talks about those who win and celebrate victory then shifts to those who are defeated.
- T-Success is only counted sweetest to certain people who don't experience success often.
- T-To appreciate something good there must be a need for it.
- "Much Madness is divinest Sense-" Analysis
- T-The speaker makes it seem like madness makes sense and it's okay to be mad.
- P-The speaker is saying majority of people are simple and ordinary, if you agree you're sane and if you object you 're shut out from society.
- C-Paradox, the speaker says that if you odject from majority you're "handled with chains", she really means you're being held back in society.
- A-The speaker's attitude is frustrated because of how society views people who object to the ordinary.
- S-Stanza 6, the speaker shifts her focus from those who agree that madness is simple and bare to those who object and think it's holy smartness.
- T-Much madness is only divinest sense to those who think it's smart.
- T-It's up to the people in society to chose how they view madness, everyone has an opinion.
- "My life closed twice before its close-" Analysis
- T-The speaker's life ended once then it began again.
- P-The speaker is dealing with the loss of two close friend which is why her life ended two times.
- C-The speaker uses allusions to refrence death like it is door.
- A-The speaker's attitude is grievingbecause she is going throug the loss of her very close male friends.
- S-Stanza 7, she shifts from grieving her loss of her friends to accepcting that we have to part ways either to heaven or to hell.
- T-The speaker really means that since her two friends died her life closed when they died because they were special to her.
- T-Your life should countine to go on just because someone close to you dies, we will all eventually have to part ways to heaven or hell.
- "The Soul selects her own Society-" Analysis
- T-A person's soul will select her place in society and where she fits in.
- P-The speaker is saying the soul picks certain people or ides to let it then after one is chosen she closes her attention on them.
- C-Personification, the speaker makes it seem like the soul is female and opens up like valves to let ideas in.
- A-The speaker's attitutde is unmoving, she is set in her ways about letting new ideas in.
- S-Stanza 12, she first talks about letting new ides in to the ones who kneel to her then once she's chosen she close like stone.
- T-The soul picks what she wants and the ideas or people she wants to let in
- T-The soul will choose what the soul wants and what it wants to let in.
- "I heard a Fly buzz when I died-" Analysis
- T-Someone may have heard a fly buzzing around as they died.
- P-The speaker is on her deathbed singing her will when she noticed a fly buzzing and that was the last thing she saw and heard.
- C-Imagey, the speaker gives details to imagine a fly flying around the room.
- A-The speaker is weak and sad because she is on her deathbed and the eyes around her are crying.
- S-Stanza 12, it shirts from the speaker signing her will to her attention being on the fly in the room.
- T-The speaker literally saw a fly and heard it buzzing around the room on her deathbed as she was dying.
- T-Death is not extraordinary like some people who vision it to be, it's very simple, ordinary and natural.
- "My life had stood a Loaded Gun-"Pictures of Pompii People Analysis
- T-The speaker is comparing her life to a loaded gun.
- P-The speaker potrays God as a murderous hunter of man as desth goes about excuting people.
- C-Allusion, the speaker refrences Mt.Vesuvius, a volcanic mountain that erupted in A.D.79 and buried the Roman city of Pompeii and its inhabitants.
- A-The speaker is proud because she guards the Master's head and smiles.
- S-Stanza 11, the speaker was very frozen when she was alive and after death she smiles and lets pleasure through.
- T-The speaker's life was anticipated and it waited for something intense to happen.
- T-You should live life to the fullest and be happy because when you're gone you can't go back and live again.