Synonyms and antonyms
Carriage : Carrier, a four-wheeled horse-drawn passenger vehicle, vehicle, coach, trap, gig, cab, wagon
Haste : Quick, speed, swift, (Antonyms : slow, calm)
Leisure : Free time, spare time, relax ( Antonyms : busy, engrossed, tired)
Civility : cultured, well-bred, sensitive, well-mannered ( Antonyms : barbaric, rough, rogue)
Strove : past tense of strive, endeavor, effort (Antonyms : idle, lazy)
Recess : interval, suspension of activities ( Antonyms : continue, cyclic)
Dews : droplets of water
Quivering : shaking, waving (Antonyms ; still, motionless)
Gossamer: soft fabric, soft cloth, delicate, light, flimsy (Antonyms : hard, rough, coarse, strong)
Tippet : A covering for the shoulders, as of a sleeve, hood, or cape
Tulle : Fine starched net of silk or nylon used for veils (Pardah)
Swelling : coming out, protruding(Antonyms : Swallow, pit)
Scarcely: Scantily, not fully (Antonym: fully, completely)
Cornice: An ornamental horizontal molding or frame used to conceal rods, picture hooks, or other devices, decoration
Mound: A pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris heaped for protection or concealment, heap
Eternity: endless, heaven, paradise (Antonym: doom, hell, Hades)
APPRECIATION OF THE POEM
1. Death is personified as a gentleman caller or suitor
2. The drive, the journey symbolizes leaving life behind.
3. She progresses from childhood, adulthood (the "gazing grain" is ripe) and to setting (dying) sun to her grave.
4. The children are presented as active in their leisure ("strove").
5. Irony is employed in the activity of children and passivity of death and inactivity involved in death.
6. Images of children are used to suggest activity, future and progress.
7. The word "passed" is used four times in stanzas three and four.
8. They are "passing" by the children and grain, both still part of life.
9. They are also "passing" into eternity.
10. The word ‘passed’ is used several times to intensify the concept of change, and impermanence.
11. ("dew grew quivering and chill")- it indicates inactivity and becoming cold which is in contract to the activity of preceding stanzas.
12. Immortality is symbolized as the final destination of life and the poem advocates deathlessness of the soul.
13. Final stanza establishes paradox and ambiguity,
14. The word surmise is similar to expectation and guess so she is imagining for the eternity.
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