Emily Dickinson Personification

In this poem, the speaker speaks from the spiritual realm. As the narrator is speaking, the narrator talks about the day she died. The theme of this poem is death is inevitable yet peaceful. Dickinson writes, “Because I could not stop for Death-He kindly stopped for me-”(Dickinson L 1-2). This is an example of personification. In these lines, death is personified as being able to stop for someone to take them to the afterlife. This reinforces the theme by explaining that the narrator did not want to end her life; she wanted to keep living. However, death stopped to take her. There is no mention of death being terrible in the poem. In fact, death is described as being almost peaceful. The narrator says,” We passed the fields of Gazing Grain-We