The Image of Death in "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"

Emily Dickinson was born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts. She had lived and died there. She turned out to be a very reclusive person as her age progressed. Emily's personality has been described to be very unique and remote. Within her poetry, there is a connection between her every day life and the spiritual world. Similar to this poem is "Some keep the Sabbath going to church" which also showed her depiction of eternity. In her poem, "Because I could not stop for death," Emily showed how she would await for death and how calm and un-frightening it was.
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