American Icons: ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death’
Emily Dickinson’s fantasy of getting picked up by the grim reaper is a very strange work of art to be standard fare in high school English classes. For our American Icons series, Sean Cole ? a poet himself ? examines Dickinson’s legendary work, ‘Because I Could Not Stop for Death.’
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