Emily Dickinson is known for her poetry around the subjects of death, love, and nature. These themes, however, are less standard than they appear at first glance. Dickinson writes poetry with complex themes, and in many cases each of her poems can be classified according to several themes. “Because I Couldn’t Stop to Die” is a great example of Dickinson’s multi-faceted work. Emily Dickinson personifies death with an underlying theme of love in "Because I Couldn't Stop to Die." In the first line of “Because I could not stop to die,” readers are already aware that the theme of death will run throughout the poem. However, rather than the standard theme of death, Dickinson introduces death by taking on the role of a human. Additionally, she implies that she is keen, because if you could stop to die, you might already be dying, but she adds that we cannot choose when we die. In the first line of the poem, the word death is capitalized, further suggesting that death could be replaced by a man's name. Dickinson depicts Death as a gentleman who appears in a carriage. Additionally, although with an underlying theme of love, the reader can interrupt this line to explain that we cannot always stop for love. The second line of the poem, “He kindly stopped for me -” describes Death as a gentleman caller and readers can see how Dickinson carefully chose the word “kindly” to further evolve her idea. Dickinson chooses to end the stanza by saying that it is she and Death who are in the carriage, with immortality. The carriage in the poem can be taken literally, but some readers may also choose to frame it as a coffin, further emphasizing the poem's relationship with death. One of the great...... middle of paper ...... ultimate love story with Death. In the final lines of this poem, Dickinson states, “I first supposed that horses' heads were turned toward eternity. » These last lines bring the poem full circle as they bring the reader back to the first stanza, when Death appears with his carriage. The horses pulled the carriage that takes the speaker to eternal life, which she alludes to in the first lines. Through her poetry, Emily Dickinson takes her readers on a journey alongside her speaker. By the conclusion of “Because I Couldn't Stop to Die,” readers have traveled the entire journey starting with the encounter with death to recalling the details centuries later. Dickinson's work is multifaceted and cannot be classified according to a single theme. In “Because I Could Not Stop to Die,” Dickinson seduces her readers with the personification of death and feelings of love..