"Because I could not stop for Death" and "Neighbor Rosicky".
This paper compares "Because I could not stop for Death" and "Neighbor Rosicky." Emily Dickinson's poem #712, "Because I could not stop for Death", and Willa Cather's short story, "Neighbor Rosicky", both conjure up images and emotions related to death and human mortality. Each contains passages in which the characters ponder death, but they do so from contrasting perspectives. The narrator of Dickinson's poem wishes, albeit in vein, to avoid death, while Cather's Rosicky, although he does not wish to die, accepts death with a kind of benevolent resignation.
