SOURCE: “A Continuation of the Tradition of the Irony of Death,” in Dickinson Studies, No. 54, Bonus 1984, pp. 33-37.
In the following essay, Bzowski examines Dickinson's “Because I could not stop for Death” in the context of the medieval Dance of Death tradition, which was intended to remind people of the close relationship between life and death.
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