《因为我不能停步等待死神》被公认为是艾米莉·狄金森一首描写死亡的佳作,这首诗摈弃以往人们对死亡恐怖、战栗的印象,以一种委婉的手法将死亡提升到一个可爱甚至可敬的形象,向众人展示了诗人对死亡的迥异看法。然而,狄金森的诗歌似乎在普通的意象下,隐含着更为委婉而又隐晦的个人情感。本文从狄金森作为一个女性的角度,重新对这首佳作做出了剖析。 “Because I can not wait to die for a long time” is widely acknowledged as Emily Dickinson’s masterpiece of describing death. This poem rejects the previous horror and trembling of death and raises death in a tactful way A lovely or respectable image, to show the poet’s different views on death. However, Dickinson’s poems seem to imply more euphemistic and subtle personal feelings under the ordinary image. This article from Dickinson as a feminine point of view, made a new analysis of this masterpiece.