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- From: macaj2@cspyr1.cs.adfa.oz.au (MACKINNELL AMANDA)
- Subject: Reaperman...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.075841.7863@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Keywords: emily Dickinson
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- Organization: Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:58:41 GMT
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- Is anyone familiar with Emily Dickinson's poem that begins:
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- "Because I could not stop for Death,
- He kindly stopped for me-
- the carriage held but just ourselves-
- And immortality."
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- To me this sounds like the theme employed in the end of Reaper Man
- when Death, after finding the most user-friendly diamond and the
- Dark enchantment-variety Chocolates, comes to see Miss Flitworth.
-
-
- Amanda MacKinnell
-
- I just finished my American Lit course, Wonder whether the
- lecturer will notice thats the only Dickinson poem I quoted
- from,let alone read.
-