Dickinson imagines Death as a courteous carriage driver in this poem.

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Your new ahaBecause I Could Not Stop for Death

Dickinson's poem personifies death as a courteous carriage driver arriving calmly rather than violently. Source: Because I could not stop for Death ↗

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40This Eliot poem presents the hesitant inner monologue of its named speaker and opens with an epigraph from Dante.IDENTIFY
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Eliot's Prufrock voices a man paralyzed by hesitation and opens with an epigraph borrowed from Dante's Inferno.
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41Lewis Carroll tells of a fantastical monster's slaying in this nonsense poem featuring invented words such as galumphing.RECALL
Jabberwocky
Carroll's Jabberwocky tells of a fantastical creature's slaying using invented nonsense words like galumphing.
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42This poet wrote Jabberwocky.RECALL
Lewis Carroll
Carroll's Jabberwocky tells of a fantastical creature's slaying using invented nonsense words like galumphing.
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