Question

as you read, take notes on how dickinson uses figurative language to describe death. 1 because i could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality. 5 we slowly drove, he knew no haste, and i had put away my labor, and my leisure too, for his civility. we passed the school where children played, 10 their lessons scarcely done; we passed the fields of gazing grain, we passed the setting sun. we paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground; 15 the roof was scarcely visible, 3. which of the following best describes how the structure of the poem contributes to its meaning? a. the poems upbeat meter makes death appear playful rather than ominous. b. the variation in the meter mimics the speakers uncertainty about death. c. the lack of a rhyme scheme shows that the speaker is mournful. d. the poems absence of meter shows that the speaker is carefree about death.

Explanation:

The poem "Because I could not stop for Death" by Dickinson has a varying meter. The variation in meter can be seen as mirroring the speaker's uncertainty about death. The poem does not have an upbeat meter making death playful (A is wrong), lack of rhyme - scheme doesn't directly show mourning (C is wrong), and the poem has a meter so D is wrong.

Answer:

B. The variation in the meter mimics the speaker's uncertainty about death.