Hi everyone welcome to the channel and thank you once again for your love and support. In this video I am going to read Dickinson's because I could not stop for death the second part of the poem. The second part of the video consists of the last two stangers of the poem. As you know that Dickinson was obsessed with the meditations, thoughts of death, morbidity, mortality. Because I could not stop for death is not an exception. And in the poem Dickinson describes the posthumous consciousness of the speaker, her journey with death and immortality to her final destination and her final disillusionment. You know that in many poems Dickinson has significantly deviated from the Christian convention especially in the belief of heaven and hell. One such poem is uphill. In uphill Dickinson speaks of an uphill shelter and uphill refuge where the soul goes after death and the soul gets raised in proportion with the labor committed in the in the in the mountain life. So you see in uphill Dickinson is challenging the Christian convention of heaven and hell. There is no such idea of heaven and hell in the poem. It only rests and you get rest according to the labor you have done in your life. If you have completed all your works of all your assigned tasks, the promises you have made then you will get rest, posthumous rest and if you have not done then you won't get rest. So you see how Dickinson has deviated from the Christian conventions. I mean because I could not stop for death there is a deviation, a significant deviation from the concept of heaven and hell because the speaker who has traveled with death and immotality to her final destination the graveyard has stayed there for a century or more but she is not yet been sent either to heaven or hell. So without wasting time let us move to the text. We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground the roof was scarcely visible the cornice in the ground. So very clearly the house air refers to the graveyard, the final destination for the dead body the swelling of the ground refers to the grave you know that the ground is swelled after the dead body is buried or after the completion of the funeral service. The roof was scarcely visible that line is very important because it suggests the limitlessness of the posthumous existence that the posthumous existence is not bound by any roof. The roof was scarcely visible meaning the upward dimension of the house was limitless. She did not say that there was no roof she said that the roof was scarcely visible that there could be roof but that was not visible that was hardly visible to me. The cornice in the ground and the cornice was in the ground since then it centuries. Now we are back in the present and yet feel shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity. The last tanja is perhaps the most significant stanza of the poem in which the speaker reveals how she was disillusioned because the day she died and she travelled with death and immotality to her final destination. She had expected that the carriage would take her towards eternity, towards heavenly bleach but her heavenly expectations were not answered since then. She has passed a whole century though it appeared shorter than the day precisely because in the posthumous life temporality does not function. I told you in the last video that time ceases the moment man ceases. The posthumous existence is a timeless existence. The mundane concept of time and temporality does not work after death. She had thought that the horses' heads would move towards my heavenly destination, but no she was taken to the graveyard and she was waiting there for eternity. Instead of her heavenly bleach or maybe hell sufferings she was given eternal waiting for the judgment. So in the last tanja as you can see, decension has significantly deviated from the Christian convention of the heaven and hell that after death the soul is saying to the heaven of the hell according to the karma of the man in his mundane life. Such convention is challenged in the last tanja of the poem where the speaker is quite disillusioned and her expectations are never answered. At present I am reminded of the ending of Joyce's Arabic. The narrator you remember when he reached Arabic the oriental fete, how disillusion he was and he became so angry that his eyes were glowing. His fiery eyes proved how badly he was deceived. His expectations of visiting a brilliant, a flamboyant, a magnificent, a bazaar, oriental bazaar was never answered, was never fulfilled. It was a place of monetary concerns, it was a place fulfilled with darkness, it was a place filled with selfish laughter. And at the end of the story the narrator said that I found myself in the dark. So similarly at the end of the poem because I could not stop for death the speaker is disillusioned after her death. She found that all the Christian promises for heaven are never fulfilled or never kept after her death. Thank you very much. Thank you for watching. In the next video we are going to deal with some literary terms and after that we shall read Hopkins's Felix Randall. Goodbye.