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’s "Because I could not stop for Death" is a remarkable masterpiece that exercises thought between the known and the unknown. Critics call ’s poem a masterpiece with strange "haunting power." In Dickinson’s poem, "Because I could not stop for Dea ....

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.... Dickinson’s masterpiece lives on complex ideas that are evoked through symbols, which carry her readers through her poem. Besides the literal significance of —the "School," "Gazing Grain," "Setting Sun," and the "Ring"—much is gathered to complete the poem’s central idea. Emily brought to light the mysteriousness of life’s cycle. Ungraspable to many, the cycle of one’s life, as symbolized by Dickinson, has three stages and then a final stage of eternity. These three stages are recognized by Mary N. Shaw as follows: "School, where children strove"(9) may represent childhood; "Fields of Gazing Grain"(11), matur ....