"Wild Nights--Wild Nights!
Were I wish thee
Wild Nights should be
Our luxury!"
Who was she exactly referring to as "Our luxury"? Maybe a love or significant other. In the second poem, we know exactly who is being talked about, Death. The mood of this poem is the opposite, sort of in a despair.
"Because I could not stop for Death--
He kindly stopped for me--
The Carriage held but just Ourselves--
And Immortality."
It seemed like she was not ready to just stop and die, but if it was her time, she surely was going to go. Through out the poem, Dickinson describes what she sees as the carriage passes everything, as if remembering things as they were before she was to go.
"We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess--in the Ring--
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain--
We passed the Setting Sun--"
In the first poem, she speaks of her heart and how she is done searching, she is ready to settle, with her lover?
"Rowing in Eden--
Ah, the Sea!
Might I but moor--Tonight--
In Thee!"
While in the last poem, Death and herself end the journey at a strange house. This was the end of her journey, where she was to bid farewell to Death.
"Since then--'tis Centuries--and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads
Were toward Eternity--"
Two poems by the same person, but two completely different moods and feelings. One about a possible lover and the other about the end.
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