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Emily Dickinson was an American poet. She was a prolific poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson’s poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

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Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson

<span class="entry-title-primary">Because I could not stop for Death</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Emily Dickinson</span>

Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
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