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Question

Which best characterizes

Dickinson's attitude toward

death, as portrayed in Lines 5-

7 of "Because I could not stop

for Death"?

Lines 5-7: "We slowly drove -

He knew no haste,

And I had put away

My labor, and my leisure too,"

A. acceptance

B. terror

C. disgust

Answer

A. acceptance

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Lines 5-7 of the poem portray Dickinson's attitude toward death as one of acceptance. She notes that Death "knew no haste" and that...