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The poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is one of Emily Dickinson’s famous masterpieces. It is also one of the great poems in the English language. It is a brilliant, extraordinary lyric. Being well constructed, easily understood, and filled with many poetic conventions, the poem mainly focuses on two themes: death and eternity. Traditionally, Death is bloodcurdling. In this poem, however, the writer personifies death and eternity. Death is imagined to be a gentleman who connects with Immortality. And the writer herself, as an innocent girl, was moved by the manners of that gentleman---death. Finally, she and her companion eternity get into the carriage of death. In the whole poem, there is no horrible existence. On the contrary, everything is so quiet, harmonious and warm. It reveals the clam acceptance of life with dignity, grace and how it is welcomed rather than feared.