In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” she uses various types of figurative language and imagery (personification, metaphor, and symbol) to portray the idea that death is not a dreadful event, but actually a pleasant experience. Emily Dickinson uses personification, giving human like qualities to an object or idea. In this poem, death is seen as a gentleman caller. Death is coming to pick her up for a date in …showed first 75 words of 535 total…

…showed last 75 words of 535 total…idea by showing it as an enjoyable welcome. Also, people have the idea that the afterlife is a great experience, but Dickinson wants the reader to feel that the eternal life is boring. In the first five stanzas the speaker describes the death as a somewhat fun long ride. Dickinson writes only one stanza on the eternal life where as there is no detail, and it goes so fast there is no time to “live.”