The poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson expresses the speaker's reflection on death. The poem focuses on the concept of life after death. This poem's setting mirrors the circumstances by which death approaches, and death's ton appears kind and compassionate. It is through the promise of immortality that fear is removed, and death not only becomes acceptable, but welcomed as well. As human beings, we feel that death never comes …
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…carried her off becomes irrelevant. The speaker realizes there is no price to pay for death, and death is not to be feared, but rather embraced. This can be viewed in the sixth stanza, "Since then-'tis Centuries-and yet/Feels shorter than the Day/I first surmised the Horses Heads/were toward Eternity." In conclusion, the speaker's faith and belief in immortality allow her to peacefully exit one phase of existence, while embracing the next phase.