Question

Read the quotation from "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."

The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.
What is the effect of the phrase “but just Ourselves” in the lines above?
It gives the poem a humble tone.
It conveys the personal nature of the speaker’s journey.
It conveys a sense of sarcasm.
It gives the speaker’s journey a feeling of loneliness.

Answer 1

B.

Step-by-step explanation:

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Answer 2

The words ‘but just ourselves’ conveys the personal nature of the speaker’s journey

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

Emily Dickinson is an excellent poet. In her poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ in the first stanza when she says, ‘The Carriage held but just Ourselves –and Immortality’ by saying just ourselves she means that in the carriage its only her and death.

And by Immortality she means the eternal life and the endlessness, no one else is being accompanied. So it is clear that option C is the correct answer which conveys the personal nature of the speaker’s journey towards death.