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"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death –

He kindly stopped for me –

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –

And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste

And I had put away

My labor and my leisure too,

For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess – in the Ring –

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –

We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed Us –

The Dews drew quivering and Chill –

For only Gossamer, my Gown –

My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed

A Swelling of the Ground –

The Roof was scarcely visible –

The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity –

DMU Timestamp: November 12, 2020 20:50

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 9:02AM) : Death is capitalized.

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Joe Child Joe Child (Jan 08 2021 9:10AM) : were toward eternity has a million words in just three somehow. It helps you understand so much just from them three words.

Jan 8

Nikki Scercy Nikki Scercy (Jan 08 2021 12:43PM) : Death is capitalized because it is personified. It is a person and Death is its name.

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GLORIA LOPEZ GLORIA LOPEZ (Jan 08 2021 9:59AM) : What is Cornice?

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GLORIA LOPEZ GLORIA LOPEZ (Jan 08 2021 10:00AM) : Two of or vocab words were used in the story.

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GLORIA LOPEZ GLORIA LOPEZ (Jan 08 2021 10:00AM) : It feels like Emily is just going through the motions and is not enjoying life.

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Student Tressie Carter Student Tressie Carter (Jan 08 2021 10:01AM) : He is stating death to be a person, and he can not stop wanting death.

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mia Mia Dobbins mia Mia Dobbins (Jan 08 2021 10:15AM) : good job more

I did not notice that or think of it in that way, great observation.

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JOE HORTON JOE HORTON (Jan 08 2021 10:05AM) : death is inevitable

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 10:07AM) : Good.

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mia Mia Dobbins mia Mia Dobbins (Jan 08 2021 10:16AM) : good job more

good job.

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mia Mia Dobbins mia Mia Dobbins (Jan 08 2021 10:08AM) : The capitalized letters more

The words that provide a more in depth meaning or adds to the poem are capitalized and its a good thing to connect these words together.

Jan 8

Daniel Horton Daniel Horton (Jan 08 2021 10:11AM) : Immortality is capitalized

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mia Mia Dobbins mia Mia Dobbins (Jan 08 2021 10:16AM) : good observation

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mia Mia Dobbins mia Mia Dobbins (Jan 08 2021 10:12AM) : The first sentence more

I think the first sentences really set the tone for the poem and it creates a cool and chilling tone for the reader. I really like how the author said " He kindly stopped for me".

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mia Mia Dobbins mia Mia Dobbins (Jan 08 2021 10:14AM) : The mode during the poem more

The author through the poem talks about the surroundings of them during the drive in the carriage. Almost like their life’s happiest moments was flashing before their eyes.

Jan 8

Daniel Horton Daniel Horton (Jan 08 2021 10:16AM) : It feels as tho Emily is not living her life to the fullest and not enjoying it.

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Daniel Horton Daniel Horton (Jan 08 2021 10:17AM) : It seems as tho this person is very fond of Death and likes to talk about it.

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NATHAN KULCZYCKI NATHAN KULCZYCKI (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : She accepts that she can't do anything to stop death

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KODI SEYMORE KODI SEYMORE (Jan 08 2021 12:36PM) : she is saying that she cant stop from death and that death stopped for her so she is saying that death is a person [Edited]

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JEREMIAH STRANO JEREMIAH STRANO (Jan 08 2021 3:31PM) : Death is capitalized meaning it is a person not just a term.

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Destany Horine Destany Horine (Jan 08 2021 3:31PM) : Some of our vocab words were used.

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Benjamin Leija Benjamin Leija (Jan 08 2021 3:33PM) : Death is capitalized in order to personify death and give it a bigger meaning.

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Destany Horine Destany Horine (Jan 08 2021 3:33PM) : Eternity is never ending and it always has something added on

Jan 8

Destany Horine Destany Horine (Jan 08 2021 3:37PM) : Death will happen no matter what you do.

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Jadyn Lowe Jadyn Lowe (Jan 08 2021 3:40PM) : Eternity, Civility, and Immortality are used in this Poem.

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Jadyn Lowe Jadyn Lowe (Jan 08 2021 3:49PM) : Gossamer is also used.

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shelby buchler shelby buchler (Jan 08 2021 9:17AM) : In 1 and 2 she says she couldn't stop for death so it stopped for her.

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shelby buchler shelby buchler (Jan 08 2021 9:19AM) : Death is the he

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James Cain James Cain (Jan 08 2021 12:09PM) : THis line might suggest the narrator became immortal

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Jonathan Twilley Jonathan Twilley (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : I think death stopping for her, was him giving her a final opportunity to live and he is allowing her that privilege.

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SKYLER CASEY SKYLER CASEY (Jan 08 2021 3:40PM) : I really like this idea.

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JEREMIAH STRANO JEREMIAH STRANO (Jan 08 2021 3:32PM) : She could not stop so Death waited for her

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Andon Templet Andon Templet (Jan 08 2021 3:33PM) : Death is a nice guy since Death stopped for her.

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 3:35PM) : She does portray him as being kind and patient.

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SKYLER CASEY SKYLER CASEY (Jan 08 2021 3:38PM) : The way she worded this seems to indicate that she is accepting with Death.

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Student Briana Aviles Student Briana Aviles (Jan 08 2021 3:46PM) : This is stating that Death waited for her patiently. It was giving her a benefit to make a choice.

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Samuel Throckmorton Samuel Throckmorton (Jan 08 2021 9:11AM) : She is on the long journey after death. She says it is just her and Death who stopped for her.

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Jadyn Lowe Jadyn Lowe (Jan 08 2021 3:42PM) : I don't think she is searching for Death because she said she could not stop for him.

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 9:56AM) : What is the carriage?

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Jadyn Lowe Jadyn Lowe (Jan 08 2021 3:44PM) : Is the carriage Life?

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Nikki Scercy Nikki Scercy (Jan 08 2021 12:48PM) : The carriage is leading them to the afterlife.

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shelby buchler shelby buchler (Jan 08 2021 9:21AM) : Our vocab word Immortality is used

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Sir Ethan Stucker Sir Ethan Stucker (Jan 08 2021 10:01AM) : Who's immortal [Edited]

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Professor Ethan Lopez Professor Ethan Lopez (Jan 08 2021 10:06AM) : Who do you think is immortal

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 10:07AM) : It is interesting that immortality is personified here.

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TRISTAN MURPHY TRISTAN MURPHY (Jan 08 2021 10:05AM) : I wouldn´t like to be immortal it would be lonely

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Jayden Shackelford Jayden Shackelford (Jan 08 2021 3:32PM) : Deaths attitude towards time more

The idea of death not having haste is interesting to me, he would have no time constraints because of his immortality but would still have a task he needs to complete.

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Andon Templet Andon Templet (Jan 08 2021 3:36PM) : This and the line above most likely means that they are the only two beings in the carriage. Are they both immortals?

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Joe Child Joe Child (Jan 08 2021 9:12AM) : It explains how they're just taking their time and not in any hurry.

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Caden Snearly Caden Snearly (Jan 08 2021 10:11AM) : They are in no hurry to get anywhere because they've got eternity

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Caleb Nicholson Caleb Nicholson (Jan 08 2021 12:31PM) : They don't believe that they have to rush because they have forever now.

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 12:36PM) : Good.

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Gadge Sherwood Gadge Sherwood (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : Death doesn't hurry

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JEREMIAH STRANO JEREMIAH STRANO (Jan 08 2021 3:33PM) : Death is all consuming so it does not matter when he shows up just that he is there

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Samuel Throckmorton Samuel Throckmorton (Jan 08 2021 9:12AM) : For 6 and 7 she talks about how she has left all of her labors and leisure's behind.

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Caressia Moore Caressia Moore (Jan 08 2021 9:17AM) : In 7 and 8 it means that this character gave up everything for someone´s civility.

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Gadge Sherwood Gadge Sherwood (Jan 08 2021 12:34PM) : she has no hurry to go to the afterlife

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Kaylee Stevens Kaylee Stevens (Jan 08 2021 10:02AM) : I think death was being a gentlemen to the person because it uses the word "Civility".

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 10:08AM) : Nice observation.

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Keaton Stevens Keaton Stevens (Jan 08 2021 10:04AM) : The beginning of each word is capped in this.

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 12:29PM) : Civility is one of our vocabulary words.

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NATHAN KULCZYCKI NATHAN KULCZYCKI (Jan 08 2021 12:33PM) : Uses one of our vocab word civility

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Nikki Scercy Nikki Scercy (Jan 08 2021 12:47PM) : Death is being portrayed as polite.

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Jayden Shackelford Jayden Shackelford (Jan 08 2021 3:33PM) : The way death is described more

The civility of death is a topic I did not think would be brought up.

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SKYLER CASEY SKYLER CASEY (Jan 08 2021 3:35PM) : It seems like her life is flashing before her eyes.

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Student Briana Aviles Student Briana Aviles (Jan 08 2021 3:40PM) : Death is showing courtesy to this person.

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Caressia Moore Caressia Moore (Jan 08 2021 9:20AM) : Maybe this means that they passed a school full of children,where they saw them having fun and playing ring around the rose??

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Student Tressie Carter Student Tressie Carter (Jan 08 2021 10:04AM) : "Children strove" he is stating that the children in school are trying to be the best they can be to be successful

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Andon Templet Andon Templet (Jan 08 2021 3:37PM) : What do they children signify? Does it mean that they are taking a trip do memory lane?

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Professor Ethan Lopez Professor Ethan Lopez (Jan 08 2021 10:04AM) : What is this ring that they speak of?

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Dr. Andrew Miller Dr. Andrew Miller (Jan 08 2021 12:36PM) : She admiring everything they go by

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Joe Child Joe Child (Jan 08 2021 9:12AM) : They "passed" the setting sun where they went by it.

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 12:29PM) : Could it be a play on words "passed away?"

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Eli Cannon Eli Cannon (Jan 08 2021 9:13AM) : I like how they referenced the sun and how fast they were going.

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cheyanna smith cheyanna smith (Jan 08 2021 3:39PM) : I also like the sun reference.

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JOE HORTON JOE HORTON (Jan 08 2021 10:02AM) : Time is going by too fast

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James Cain James Cain (Jan 08 2021 12:08PM) : this might suggest they took a break to watch the sun set

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Caylin Knuckles Caylin Knuckles (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : She talks about the sun as if it were a person

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Caleb Nicholson Caleb Nicholson (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : I think it was meaning somewhere close to passing away.

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Jayden Shackelford Jayden Shackelford (Jan 08 2021 3:35PM) : Time more

Yeah I feel like it’s someones last moments being stretched out by either death itself or their perception of time changing.

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NATHAN KULCZYCKI NATHAN KULCZYCKI (Jan 08 2021 12:35PM) : Time is going by too fast

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KODI SEYMORE KODI SEYMORE (Jan 08 2021 12:43PM) : time is going by too fast and that it wont stop

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cheyanna smith cheyanna smith (Jan 08 2021 3:38PM) : Time never stops

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Sir Ethan Stucker Sir Ethan Stucker (Jan 08 2021 10:03AM) : It's becoming night time has they passed the setting sun and the "quivering and Chill"

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Caressia Moore Caressia Moore (Jan 08 2021 9:22AM) : Gossamer is one of our vocabulary.

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Dr. Andrew Miller Dr. Andrew Miller (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : Shes in a gloomy state of mind [Edited]

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student jakob Zeiger student jakob Zeiger (Jan 08 2021 3:36PM) : Gossamer more

Gossamer

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Student Briana Aviles Student Briana Aviles (Jan 08 2021 3:42PM) : This person is in more of a calm setting or mood. Her mind is wondering.

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Professor Ethan Lopez Professor Ethan Lopez (Jan 08 2021 10:05AM) : What is a tippet

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Benjamin Leija Benjamin Leija (Jan 08 2021 3:32PM) : Emily takes us on a journey after death and tells us about being in this state.

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Eli Cannon Eli Cannon (Jan 08 2021 9:14AM) : This tells us that the horse was staying still.

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James Cain James Cain (Jan 08 2021 12:09PM) : Maybe the house looked as if it wasnt meant to be there?

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Keaton Stevens Keaton Stevens (Jan 08 2021 10:09AM) : They might have came to a big house since they can't see the roof or they are in a forest of sorts and there is too much foliage in the way.

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Jonathan Twilley Jonathan Twilley (Jan 08 2021 12:35PM) : Shows that although life can be an eternity and only feel like days, and when its over that it.

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Sir Ethan Stucker Sir Ethan Stucker (Jan 08 2021 10:03AM) : Centuries feel shorter than the Day

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Keaton Stevens Keaton Stevens (Jan 08 2021 10:05AM) : Shows how when you are having fun time flies by in the matter of seconds.

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Caylin Knuckles Caylin Knuckles (Jan 08 2021 12:34PM) : She is basically saying time is going by fast

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Dr. Andrew Miller Dr. Andrew Miller (Jan 08 2021 12:35PM) : I believe she was fading from life on her way somewhere.

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Dr . Underwood Dr . Underwood (Jan 08 2021 12:38PM) : true dat

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Eli Cannon Eli Cannon (Jan 08 2021 9:15AM) : I see that there is a trend of horses.

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JOE HORTON JOE HORTON (Jan 08 2021 10:04AM) : yes. horses

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Dr. Andrew Miller Dr. Andrew Miller (Jan 08 2021 12:36PM) : yes. horses

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 3:30PM) : Horses, of course!

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Caleb Nicholson Caleb Nicholson (Jan 08 2021 12:33PM) : horses

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Dr. Andrew Miller Dr. Andrew Miller (Jan 08 2021 12:37PM) : more horses

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Jessica Seat Jessica Seat (Jan 08 2021 3:30PM) : What does Horses' Heads mean?

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Samuel Throckmorton Samuel Throckmorton (Jan 08 2021 9:14AM) : They are going to keep traveling for eternity. Because eternity can never be reached because it goes on forever.

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Student Tressie Carter Student Tressie Carter (Jan 08 2021 10:05AM) : They were about to start traveling forever.

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Gadge Sherwood Gadge Sherwood (Jan 08 2021 12:30PM) : She used death as if it was a person

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Caylin Knuckles Caylin Knuckles (Jan 08 2021 12:31PM) : They were traveling without stopping because eternity has no end.

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Gadge Sherwood Gadge Sherwood (Jan 08 2021 12:33PM) : she died and is going into the after life

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Jonathan Twilley Jonathan Twilley (Jan 08 2021 12:36PM) : I believe this means that they are towards eternity and as such they were coming to the end of the ride and soon both her and death could not wait any longer.

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Dr . Underwood Dr . Underwood (Jan 08 2021 12:38PM) : eternity mean everlasting

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KODI SEYMORE KODI SEYMORE (Jan 08 2021 12:44PM) : eternity has no end

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Ayden Speckine Ayden Speckine (Jan 08 2021 12:45PM) : eternity is everything always

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Benjamin Leija Benjamin Leija (Jan 08 2021 3:31PM) : Throughout the poem, we see strange personifications through the capitalization of improper nouns

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cheyanna smith cheyanna smith (Jan 08 2021 3:36PM) : Death for her isnt really scary or anything, more peaceful

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student jakob Zeiger student jakob Zeiger (Jan 08 2021 3:36PM) : Eternity

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greyson gibson greyson gibson (Jan 08 2021 9:10AM) : Uses our vocabulary word gossamer

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greyson gibson greyson gibson (Jan 08 2021 9:10AM) : I like how the poem flows really nicely at the beginning

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Dr . Underwood Dr . Underwood (Jan 08 2021 12:40PM) : i know it does just flow.

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greyson gibson greyson gibson (Jan 08 2021 9:13AM) : She accepts there is nothing she can do about death

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LINDEN WHITLOW LINDEN WHITLOW (Jan 08 2021 12:32PM) : it has some vocab from this week and it talks a lot about death.

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LINDEN WHITLOW LINDEN WHITLOW (Jan 08 2021 12:33PM) : its in a very deep and dark sort of sad tone.

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Gadge Sherwood Gadge Sherwood (Jan 08 2021 12:34PM) : Her and death is going through her life and locking back on it

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LINDEN WHITLOW LINDEN WHITLOW (Jan 08 2021 12:34PM) : it feels as though as i read it it puts images in my head of a very gloomy place or day.

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