87. Alte HS2ndYr/CBCS Alte 3rd Sem Because I could not stop for death (30)

1. What is the Death or He personified to?
A:- Death or 'He' personified is a gentleman who could be in the carriage and acts as the husband of the poet.

2. What does the phrase 'we passed' show?
A:- The phrase 'we passed' shows how death and the poet passed others and entered eternity. It might also mean how all human beings pass away eventually.

3. What does 'Gazing Grain' indicate?
A:- 'Gazing Grain' indicates youth. The poet divides life in three phases. Youth is the middle phase. Grain is personified. Grain gazes(long, thoughtful looks) like humans.

4. What does 'setting sun' mean?
A:- 'Setting sun' literally means how the sun sets at the end of the day. In the poem, the phrase is compared to old age. And, this setting sun or old age is of no use to her.

5. What are the wedding clothes in the poem?
A:- Gossamer, gown and tulle are some parts of of the wedding dress.

6. What are some of the pronouns used in the poem?
A:- 'I' and 'Ourselves' are some of the pronouns used in the poem. They are used to show assertiveness.

7. What are alliterations used?
A:- 'Gazing green' and 'setting sun' are some of the alliterations used in the poem.

8. What is the main theme in the poem?
A:- Death is the main theme in the poem.

9. How are the stanzas divided?
A:- The stanzas are in quatrains. That is, each stanza consists of four lines. There are six quatrains.

10. What is the rhyme scheme?
A:- ABCB is the rhyme scheme in the poem. This rhyme scheme is called quatrain. Quatrain means four lined.

11. What is the main theme?
A:- Death, immortality and temporariness of life are the themes in the poem. Death is the main theme for no doubt. The poet is impressed with the chivalrous nature of death. For its civility and charmingness, the poet gave up life so easily. Death was so civil that it took the trouble to come and get her. Death remembered her even though she never did. Or, she replaced all her activities and leisure to undertake the journey with death. The poet is truly at peace in both ways of giving up life for death. In other side after death, she anticipated something better.

12. What is the form and structure?
A:- The poem has a ballad stanza with alternating tetrameter and tri-meter lines. There second and fourth lines in the quatrains are rhyming regularly. Two or more words have identical sounds in their final stressed syllables. The poem has song-like quality. The tone is casual and peaceful. There is the extended metaphor in the personification of death as a gentleman and the most potential groom or suitor.

13. How many stanzas are there?
A:- There are six stanzas.

14. How did the poet travel to immortality?
A:- The poet travelled in a leisurely manner towards immortality in the company of her suitor death.

15. Death is personified as a _?
A:- A gentleman

16. In each stanza, there are _ syllables.
A:- 8

17. The school symbolizes _.
A:- Midday.

18. _ is another name of this poem.
A:- The chariot.

19. Who knew no haste?
A:- Death.

20. _ sets in as dusk approaches.
A:- Chillness.

21. The horse's head is pointed towards _.
A:- Eternity.

22. _ was the other companion in the carriage.
A:- Immortality.

23. The poem was published in _.
A:- 1890.

24. What does the house signify before which they paused?
A:- Grave.

25. Give an example of approximate rhyme (partial rhyme).
A:- Chill/Tulle

26. _ calls this poem as one of the greatest.
A:- Allen Tate.

27. What is the significance of school?
A:- School signifies the mundane routine of life which is present even in childhood, playground and recess time. There is stress even in childhood activities. Human life is stressful in every phase including while sporting.

28. What is the 'ring'?
A:- Critics often agree that the ring refers to the rhyme 'ring-a-ring-a-roses' accompanied with a game. There's a line in this same rhyme 'we all fall down'- here, the symbol of falling down before death might be recalled or compared. And just because we will die one day, we do not stop playing the game of life. And, we do not stop encountering the stressors of life.

29. Which words associate with death?
A:- 'Chill' and 'dew' normally associate with the coldness of death.

30. What is the tippet in the poem?
A:- Tippet has biblical reference. The Catholic nuns wear tippets as thick capes on heads as brides wear it. These celibate nuns think themselves to be married to God/Christ one day. Their cape has bridelike comparison. However, the poet's tippet is made of tulle- a thin, netlike fabric. This tulle cape is also like a bride's cape.

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