This idea deviates from the typical grim reaper coming to take us away from the world of the living. Thus, although death is a key theme in "Because I Could Not Stop to Die", it is in a different way than traditionally thought due to Dickinson's deliberate interweaving of death and immortality. Immortality and Death appear together in the first stanza, "The carriage held only ourselves - / And Immortality" (3-4), but there is no further mention of Immortality until to the last line where the speaker states that Death's carriage took her to Eternity. This leaves the characterization of Immortality very obscure, but gives it an importance beyond that of Death. Death is a means, and Immortality the end, but what is Immortality? The immortality in Dickinson's "Because..." is clearly a continuation of the speaker's consciousness, as she remembers the day of her death and has a sense of the time that has passed since then ("'tis Centuries" (22)). Yet the speaker gives no clue as to what Immortality holds, or what one might do in Eternity. The mysterious nature of Immortality still leaves readers uncomfortable with the idea of ​​death, especially when paired with the anomalous fourth stanza. Although death itself may take the form of a gentle gentleman, the act of dying holds more disturbing emotions of fear and discomfort as "The dews drew quivering and icy ». –