Emily uses personification to describe death in the shape of a gentleman or a fellow traveler who gets to claim her soul away and to drive her off in a carriage as she says, “Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality” (lines 1-4). The speaker of the poem depicts how death has taken her on a pleasant and calm carriage ride and so happens to bring along a supervisor which is described as Immorality. In this case death is embodied in a pleasant way and not conveyed as being evil nor
Emily uses personification to describe death in the shape of a gentleman or a fellow traveler who gets to claim her soul away and to drive her off in a carriage as she says, “Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality” (lines 1-4). The speaker of the poem depicts how death has taken her on a pleasant and calm carriage ride and so happens to bring along a supervisor which is described as Immorality. In this case death is embodied in a pleasant way and not conveyed as being evil nor