The Bustle in a house

The bustle in a house
The morning after death
Is solemnest of industries
Enacted upon earth, -

The sweeping up the heart,
And putting love away
We shall not want to use again
Until eternity.

Emily posits the notion in the poem, which after death has taken a great toll upon someone you love, our heart can hardly bare the pain and your normal routine can scarcely be the same or anything of that matter. After something this  tragic has occurred , and if it is a significant other of some sort, all the love you have for them will be hard to use for someone else and it feels like eternity until your heart will be able to love again because deep inside you’ve lost the ability to love because the person you have to love is gone. Your feelings are hurting so bad that you just want to lock your heart away as suggested inines six and seven . Capitalization of words show there importance such as "Death , Heart , Love , Morning , and Bustle". In line five the speaker shows their heart being broken , maybe even shattered into pieces , and is now being swept up by the morning after .

Because I Could not stop for Death

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 – 

Repetion: "We passed the . . ."

Rhyme: Slant rhyme Line 2 and 4 (me and immortality)

Emily personifies Death as a gentleman taking a lady out on a stroll. Death is a visitor in her eyes .

Death is not cruel or wicked , but kind . Emily suggests that Death takes his time as he shows her life to her

childhood as seen in the last stanza . We believe that Dickinson compares the "house" to her grave in the 5th

stanza and the carriage represents a hearse .

If I Could Stop One Heart From Breaking

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Repetiton: With the line "I shall not live in vain"


Rhyme: In the second stanza "sight" or "eye"


Meter: Iambic


Emily Dickinson is comparing the "Robin" to a human , which refers to someone helping someone else get back on their feet. The speaker thinks if they could save only one life then it would make a big difference. The speaker is trying to help someone back onto their feet who's suffered from an incident , and if they could do that one thing it would make everything worth while.