Because I Could Not Stop For Death

The poem personifies death as a male suitor. This video shows her chasing this male suitor all her life, devoting her life to finding him, then inevitably dying when finally kissing him as he is of course death itself. The sea represents immortality, the sunset as in the poem and the girl/woman wearing just a dress also as in the poem.

The song is 'Bolero' by Ravel- a tragic love song.

The poem 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 haster,
And I had put away
My labour, 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 grew 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 but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each
Feels shorter than the day
I first summised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity."
- Emily Dickinson

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• emily dickinson
• love
• bolero
• death