Because i could not stop for death
.... It is also done in personification by the way she equates death to a human being. She portrays the ride in the carriage with death by saying it was just the two of them riding around town. The way Dickinson describes passing the school and seeing the children playing in the schoolyard, could be her life review of herself as a child. Dickinson’s lines “passing the fields of grazing grains” (11) could be her interpretation of maturity. Working in the fields during this era would likely mean a person was thought to be of adult age. The lines “We passed Jenkins 2 The setting sun or rather he passed us” (12-13) is metaphoric in a sense as it could mean the setting sun is old age, or the ending of one’s life. The stanzas “ We paused before a house that seemed a swelling of the ground, The roof was visible, The cornice-in the ground”(16-20). These lines are referring...