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BECAUSE I COULD NOT WAIT FOR DEATH By Emily Dickinson ------ CRITICAL ANALYSIS----- Abstract A critical analysis of Emily Dickinsons poem is carried out and a research on the type of poetry is made. Figures of speech , and other literary devices employed in the poem is elaborated besides making critical approaches to her poetry as a whole. A complex and multi-dimensional view of a concept that is too mysterious to be fully expressed is capsule within a poem by the literary genius who has personified death into a person who comes to her when she is not prepared to meet it. There is an uncertainty about the authors true intentions because of the radical and unlikely interpretations from many sources made on the poem. Death is explored in an intriguing and original way in this enigmatic poem which often contains as much ambiguity as significance. INTRODUCTION One of the most influential American poetess of her time, Emily Dickinson is a very private and prolific person who wrote almost two thousand poems. Intensely private and powerful as well, she wrote of death, pain and loneliness. She has become the most celebrated American poets of the eighteenth century. To some extent