I Dwell in Possibility
Dickinson’s ars poetica: poetry as a house of infinite rooms, open to visitors and crowned by the gambrels of the sky.
Theme
immortality
3 poems
immortality
Because I Could Not Stop for Death
Death is polite, the ride is unhurried, and the speaker has been dead for centuries by the time she tells the story. Dickinson’s most famous poem is calmer than it has any right to be.
Adonais (Selected Excerpts)
Shelley’s elegy for Keats rises from lament to luminous consolation — art and memory outlasting rumor and death.