Because I Could Not Stop for Death In Emily Dickinson’s poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, she describes death as an experience that she is looking back on. The idea of death in this poem isn’t portrayed as lonely or scared, but more serene and content. She describes death as more of a person rather than just an event in ones life. Death is often thought of as dark and frightening, …showed first 75 words of 650 total…

…showed last 75 words of 650 total…farther and farther away. In the last stanza we return to the narrators present state, and we are no longer looking at the journey of death, but rather where she is now. But she closes the poem implying that death has still not ended, even though her physical body has diminished, deaths journey goes on for eternity. This shows that death is not just one single event, but a whole life, and even after life!