What Came First? Pokémon or Poems? Analyzing Form and Meter in Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death"

"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson was posthumously published in 1890. The poem follows a narrator as they encounter Death and look back on life. In this episode, Hannah and Jon discuss how the poems came to be published, the themes throughout, the meter and form and how familiar it may sound.

Hannah and Jon contemplate the philosophical question of what came first: the song or the poem. We get to hear Hannah's amazing rendition of the poem sung out to a catchy tune. Jon really reminds us that a poem with "Death" in the title, is definitely about death.. Someday we may release the "hot takes" cut of this episode.

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