Because I could not stop for Death Essay Samples and Topic Ideas

Because I could not Stop for Death,’ by Emily Dickinson and ‘Departure Lounge,’ by Mervyn Morris may look very different. However, upon close examination, one sees that these poems center on the same theme, the theme of travel. One can also see that the two authors also make use of some similar ways of writing. The authors’ use of broken rhyme scheme and irony reveal their insecurities about traveling. The two poems do not have a rhyme scheme. Just as one cannot predict the point of the next line of a poem that lacks a rhyme scheme, the authors intentionally use a broken rhyme scheme in the poems to show that one cannot predict how traveling to a particular place shall turn out. Therefore,...