Emily Dickinson's majority of her pomes that I found they were mainly focused on death and the progression to death and much of what was described by many as "Gothic". In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (Franklin 219), Emily Dickinson uses remembered images of the past to clarify infinite conceptions through the establishment of a dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the known and the unknown. From the viewpoint of eternity, the speaker recalls experiences that happened on earth centuries ago. In her recollection, she attempts to identify the eternal world by its relationship to temporal standards as she states that "Centuries" in eternity are "shorter than the day" (20 - 21). …
