Assignment details
Essay 3 calls for students to discuss personification techniques used in Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death.”
How does Dickinson employ personification in this poem? How, by making objects act as humans, does she change the reader’s experience reading her work?
Writing requirements
Students will use a minimum of 2 quotes from the text to back up their claims about personification, with parenthetical citations in MLA. A Work Cited page should be included at the end of the paper, also in MLA format. See Canvas for a template.
You don’t need to summarize the poem in the essay. You do, however, need a clear introduction and thesis statement, body paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Example Quote with Parenthetical Citation
Dickinson personifies death, naming it as a proper noun and assigning masculine pronouns, stating, “Because I could not stop for Death —/ He kindly stopped for me—” (1137).
