418 "Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
The History of Literature
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Do You Want Time to Crawl, or Do You Need It to Fly By?
We learn that in the after life, anyway, it flies by. Centuries feel shorter than a day. We hear that there was a very particular day centuries ago when the speaker surmised that the horses heads were toward eternity. Can't stop for death. Death stops. You get in the carriage, you look around, nobody here but me. You gaze out the window and you travel. That's the moment of death plus the after life. And not just any day, which day? It's not a day, it's day. Because emily's not done with us.
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