Living Poetry - Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death

Because I Could Not Stop For Death reflects one of the central themes echoed by many of the 1700 poems left us by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) after her death. Also known as 712 it exhibits an element Dickinson was known and admired for, the ability to express far reaching and thought provoking ideas with a frugality of words.

Seen by many as one of the greatest English-speaking poets, she lived the majority of her life in solitude save for close friends and family. Intensely introspective, she often wrote from a spiritual perspective, "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all".

Music composed by Kjell Bjurling

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		Because I Could Not Stop For Death reflects one of the central themes echoed by many of the 1700 poems left us by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) after her death. Also known as 712 it exhibits an element Dickinson was known and admired for, the ability to express far reaching and thought provoking ideas with a frugality of words. Seen by many as one of the greatest English-speaking poets, she lived the majority of her life in solitude save for close friends and family. Intensely introspective, she often wrote from a spiritual perspective, "Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all". Music composed by Kjell Bjurling



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