Because I could not stop for Death emily dickinson

Emily  Dickinson

Because I coulduld not stop for Death 

Because I could not stop for Death – 

He kindly stopped for me – 

The Carriage held but just Ourselves – 

And Immortality. 

We slowly drove – He knew no haste 

And I had put away 

My labor and my leisure too, 

For His Civility – 

We passed the School, where Children strove 

At Recess – in the Ring – 

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain – 

We passed the Setting Sun – 

Or rather – He passed Us – 

The Dews drew quivering and Chill – 

For only Gossamer, my Gown – 

My Tippet – only Tulle – 

We paused before a House that seemed 

A Swelling of the Ground – 

The Roof was scarcely visible – 

The Cornice – in the Ground – 

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet 

Feels shorter than the Day 

I first surmised the Horses' Heads 

Were toward Eternity –

summery

emily dickinson in "because i could not stop for death" shows her acceptance towards death as well as her journey from childhood to death , in the poem death is potrayed as a genteleman  suitor who took the poetess  with him to journey towards eternity in a carrige (it is also to be noted that death an immortality travel in same carrige represent emily's view towards how death and immortality are related to each other), according to poetess her journey  with death
begins  when Death comes to emily as a suitor  in a carriage together with  Immortality  the carriage travelled at an easy, unhurried pace, suggesting that death has arrived in a form of disease disability that took much time to kill her(or could be said that through ). Then, in Stanza 3, the author appears to review the stages of her life: childhood (the recess scene), maturity (the ripe, hence, “gazing” grain), and the descent into death (the setting sun)–as she passes to the other side. There, she experiences a chill because she is not warmly dressed. In fact, her garments are more appropriate for a wedding, representing a new beginning, than for a funeral, representing an end.