Emily Dickinson is known for her poetry, particularly on themes of death, love, and nature. These themes, however, are less standard than they may appear at first glance. Dickinson writes poems with complex themes, and in many cases, each of her poems can be classified according to more than one theme. “Why I Couldn't Stop for Death” is a great example of Dickinson's multifaceted work. Emily Dickinson personifies death along with the underlying theme of love in “Because I Couldn't Stop for Death.” In the first line of “Why I Could Not Stop for Death,” readers are already aware that the theme of death will recur throughout the poem. Instead of the standard theme of death, however, Dickinson introduces death by taking on the role of a human. He also implies that he is lively, because if you could stop for death then you could already die, but adds that we cannot choose when to die. In the first line of the poem, the word death is written in capital letters, further suggesting that death could be replaced with a man's name. Dickinson portrays death as a gentleman appearing in a carriage. Also, although with an underlying theme related to love, the reader can interrupt this sentence to talk about how we can't always stop for love. The second line of the poem, "He kindly stopped for me-" elaborates Death as a gentleman calling and readers can see how Dickinson carefully chooses the word "kindly" to further evolve her idea. Dickinson chooses to end the stanza by saying that she and Death are in the carriage, together with immortality. The carriage in the poem can be taken literally, but some readers may also choose to interrupt it as a casket, which further outlines the poem's relationship to death. One of the great... middle of the card... the ultimate love affair with Death. In the final lines of this poem Dickinson states, “First I supposed that the horses' heads were towards eternity.” These final lines bring the poem full circle in the way they take the reader back to the first stanza, when Death shows up in his carriage. The horses pulled the carriage that takes the speaker to eternal life, which he alludes to in the first lines. Through her poetry, Emily Dickinson takes her readers on a journey with the speaker. At the conclusion of “Why I Couldn't Stop for Death,” readers have traveled the entire journey starting from the encounter with Death to remembering the details centuries later. Dickinson's work is multifaceted and cannot be classified by a single theme. In “Why I Could Not Stop for Death,” Dickinson entices her readers with the personification of death and feelings of love..