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What qualities does Dickinson attribute to death? Why is Immortality goingalong on this carriage ride?
 
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What is interesting in the phrase Gazing Grain? How can grain gaze?
 
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Reply #1 on: Jul 20, 2018
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  • For the poet, death and immortality go together. Besides, Dickinson is amplifying her metaphor of Death as a gentleman taking a woman for a drive: Immortality, as would have been proper in Amherst, is their chaperone.



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  • Grain has kernels like eyes at the tips of its stalks. As the speaker dies, the natural worldlike the fly in I heard a Fly buzzis watching.



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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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