Where is the speaker at the present moment of the poem? Why is ...

[Anajune7]

Where is the speaker at the present moment of the poem? Why is time saidto pass more quickly where she is now?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

What is the tone of the poem?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[meltdown117]

Answer to Question 1

• Eternity is timeless.

Answer to Question 2

• Complicatedseriousn ess enlivened with delicate macabre humor? Surely she kids her own worldly busyness in the opening line.

William Galperin reads the poem as a feminist affirmation. Not death, he finds, but immortality is Dickinsons subject. In the end the poet asserts a triumph possible only because she has renounced the proposal of Death, that threatening gentleman caller who might have married her (Emily Dickinsons Marriage Hearse, Denver Quarterly, Winter 1984: 6273).