Because I Could Not Stop For Death - Emily Dickinson

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  • @amigosindanger
    @amigosindanger 5 років тому +410

    It's curious to know that she refers to the death as "he" in masculine, but in the spanish language we call it "la" muerte" as she: in femenine.

    • @amigosindanger
      @amigosindanger 5 років тому +21

      @@rieke5838 in germanic languages (german, english, etc.) is in masculine, and in the romances languages (italian, frensh, spanish...etc) is in femenine. 😉

    • @hineraukatauridelamere-kup9194
      @hineraukatauridelamere-kup9194 4 роки тому +7

      in maori culture she's a mother.

    • @sleepyhermit5758
      @sleepyhermit5758 4 роки тому +4

      We usually dipict the grim reaper as male so I'd say male in the US

    • @arishanikka9974
      @arishanikka9974 4 роки тому +3

      Смерть - Smert' , with soft "t" in the end, in russian, referred as female

    • @alessiavaglica4320
      @alessiavaglica4320 3 роки тому

      Same in italian

  • @chelseacee7056
    @chelseacee7056 6 років тому +265

    The body expires but the soul is immortal ..life after life, death after death

    • @guitaria6
      @guitaria6 4 роки тому +7

      to be honest I feel like if that’s what you believe then you believe the we’re conscious in death

    • @iamtha6738
      @iamtha6738 4 роки тому +1

      It's wonderful.. I also read this poetry in a competition.. Would you like to visit my video on this link? If you have any suggestion, please let me know. It helps me a lot to be better. Thank you so much.
      ua-cam.com/video/j6I2dDjYOFU/v-deo.html

    • @zoiefinnian3540
      @zoiefinnian3540 3 роки тому

      @@guitaria6 i really really hope so

  • @zoiefinnian3540
    @zoiefinnian3540 3 роки тому +30

    I love the line “ the carriage held but just ourselves” - maybe death is an entity that rides WITH us, so for ONCE we aren’t alone… I miss you mama. I’m sorry I stayed here

  • @sandraluisebuchner9766
    @sandraluisebuchner9766 5 років тому +90

    After my first acceptance of a poem by Emily Dickinson (It was not death for I stood up), I have now set my own poem to music.

    • @goldengooseedits4386
      @goldengooseedits4386 Рік тому

      the first one of hers i heard was i died for beauty but was scarse

  • @azuma6041
    @azuma6041 5 років тому +39

    I remember when I read this poem and it had me shocked by how beautiful it was

    • @FC-BS
      @FC-BS Рік тому

      I agree this I a very beautiful poem

  • @Speedskater9999
    @Speedskater9999 5 років тому +140

    Who is the speaker? She is by far the best speaker I have heard. Bravo!!

    • @ricochetVendetta
      @ricochetVendetta 4 роки тому +13

      Cynthia Nixon I think

    • @antmagor
      @antmagor Рік тому

      @@ricochetVendetta it is. She had the roll of Emily Dickinson in the film. It was called a quite passion.

  • @missawndr3395
    @missawndr3395 5 років тому +22

    Here after watching Dickinson (apple tv+) and I absolutely loved it as well

  • @jenicoj5377
    @jenicoj5377 4 роки тому +20

    Okay so your voice is the best I've heard reading this amazing piece of art, infact, your voice is perfect for this

  • @euphoriahere2
    @euphoriahere2 5 років тому +212

    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 -

  • @TheSimMan
    @TheSimMan Рік тому +1

    I can’t believe she didn’t get best actress for this film.

  • @guitaria6
    @guitaria6 4 роки тому +46

    I never understood this poem. I still find it really touching though

    • @abhayshanker5629
      @abhayshanker5629 4 роки тому +3

      Agreed

    • @tiarailic4086
      @tiarailic4086 3 роки тому +20

      It's, in my opinion about someone not able to stop for death. Perhaps because they feel they aren't ready or that death is a concept beyond their understanding. So, death does them a favor and stops for them. He takes them on a carriage ride through the golden memories of their lives and eventually stops and lays them to rest.

    • @Dsoff87
      @Dsoff87 3 роки тому +9

      The great thing about poetry is you don’t need to “understand” it. You just need to feel it. 🙂

    • @FC-BS
      @FC-BS Рік тому

      To me this poem expresses Emily's opinions about death and how delightful he is

    • @jaredharris1940
      @jaredharris1940 Місяць тому

      Miss Dickinson works are to be read over and over!

  • @amigosindanger
    @amigosindanger 5 років тому +53

    Cinthya Nixon recited this with such passion and childish tender, about a subject so serios as is the matter of death.

  • @glennbaker7914
    @glennbaker7914 3 роки тому +4

    She was always busy and had no time to die but it comes to all of us however busy we may be.

  • @HiDesert004
    @HiDesert004 5 років тому +8

    This made me cry.

  • @aylairvanikhan7876
    @aylairvanikhan7876 3 роки тому +4

    It's movie scene from A Quiet Passion,
    The best movie about Emily Dickinson Poems.
    Another movie about Emily Dickinson is Wild Nights with Emily- based on her poems Wild Night and her relationship with Sue Gilbert
    And the tv series Dickinson, a comedy modern adaptation of Emily Dickinson life and poems.

  • @emmanuelschurmann8792
    @emmanuelschurmann8792 5 років тому +26

    Lyrics -
    "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"

  • @marcossarabia7227
    @marcossarabia7227 5 років тому +10

    So many lessons!!!! Live on

  • @duaaemad7439
    @duaaemad7439 3 роки тому +9

    He kindly stopped for me
    Death is inevitable like love 😢

  • @jonathanbosco8458
    @jonathanbosco8458 4 роки тому +2

    Great job on the video and reading. Thank you to all

  • @ridhirijuana654
    @ridhirijuana654 5 років тому +15

    Just love this poem
    ...because i could not stop for death💔💔💔💔

  • @kiaramehra5248
    @kiaramehra5248 3 роки тому +5

    i feel like she's trying to say that death hanowd been with her a throughout life. like, through it all, she had been riding in death's carriage with Him (death) and immortality. the part where she says she had to put away her labor and leisure for His civility, i think she means she had to put away a lot of things for the sake of life. (life and death are the same, since they've both been with her since day one. theyre probably the same person).
    her and death passed through everything together and then the end (symbolised by the setting sun) walked past them, giving Him (death) a sign that it's time to leave her alone and so death stopped at the underground house, her grave.
    in the last verse she says that now she's been here in the underground house for centuries and yet that part when she wasn't here, as in inside the grave, felt longer. maybe she's trying to say that the suffering up there was far worse than it is here, as time feels longer when you're suffering.
    the lines "i first surmised the horses' heads were towards eternity" probably mean that she initially thought that her and death would be together for eternity but as soon as life ended, death left her too, as she's the only one in the underground house now.

  • @krystalturner
    @krystalturner 3 роки тому +1

    Love this.

  • @Emilia-dg5od
    @Emilia-dg5od 4 роки тому +12

    this made me fall for Emily Dickinson

  • @Hecateofcrossroads
    @Hecateofcrossroads 3 роки тому +1

    I love this poem

  • @m-bronte
    @m-bronte 6 років тому +6

    beautiful

  • @khaldoonmk6177
    @khaldoonmk6177 Рік тому

    I adore Cynthia Nixon's recitation of the great works of Emily Dickinson. I'm all hope Cynthia listens to me and recite all Dickinson's works.

  • @amymccollum5845
    @amymccollum5845 2 роки тому

    To bad you can't hear this version. This was one of my favorites of Emily as a 12 year old child.

  • @colinellesmere
    @colinellesmere 4 роки тому +4

    That is a reading to set you back. Stop and hesitate. Should I be doing what I am doing now?

  • @devi3365
    @devi3365 6 років тому +4

    Thanks

    • @Scholar_Warrior
      @Scholar_Warrior  6 років тому +4

      Devi Thanks for what, if I may ask?!

    • @devi3365
      @devi3365 6 років тому +3

      Parikshit Rawat thanks for uploading this video, i need this scene and i found out that the only u (maybe) posted this video

  • @xyllocarp
    @xyllocarp Місяць тому +1

    Hi, can you please tell me, what's the name of the song🙏

    • @Scholar_Warrior
      @Scholar_Warrior  Місяць тому

      It's not a song but instead a poem written by Emily DIckinson - America's best known female poet.

  • @lilbabyspookybatz9189
    @lilbabyspookybatz9189 3 роки тому +2

    Whose cutting onions? 🧅 🥺🥲

  • @finlayfraser9952
    @finlayfraser9952 4 роки тому +3

    I am overwhelmed by this reading. Can someone tell me from what part of the USA the narrator hails from? It is a US female voice that captures my heart, somewhere on the East Coast I suspect!

    • @lyook23
      @lyook23 4 роки тому +2

      I believe it is Cynthia Nixon who is a new yorker

  • @greatpainter6300
    @greatpainter6300 5 років тому +14

    I am reading this for College

    • @thamvothihong9576
      @thamvothihong9576 5 років тому +3

      Same to me =)))

    • @portcullis5622
      @portcullis5622 5 років тому +2

      Susan McKeown and Natalie Merchant recorded a beautiful version of this poem as a song (with a few slight changes to the lines).

    • @KevoCubbies3747
      @KevoCubbies3747 5 років тому +2

      Same haha

  • @ihabqutteneh1805
    @ihabqutteneh1805 6 років тому +8

    No life after death.....
    Soul only a chemical elements .

  • @Nsquaredmusic
    @Nsquaredmusic 4 роки тому +3

    fields of GAZING* grain

  • @beavicelleferrer8796
    @beavicelleferrer8796 4 роки тому +1

    Will you find me afterlife?

  • @mohe1443
    @mohe1443 4 роки тому +1

    RBG

  • @aileensun4786
    @aileensun4786 Рік тому

    Isnt it supposed to be GAZING grain? Not grazing ?????

  • @VirtuaWaves
    @VirtuaWaves 4 роки тому +1

    Pokemon meme

  • @simranparhar2965
    @simranparhar2965 5 років тому +19

    Billie eilish as a poet 😂