Note #3

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality....

    In The Chariot, Emily Dickinson expounds upon the process of death and what she thinks life after death will hold. Her light, almost conversational tone portrays death as an old friend, rather than the harbinger of pain and evil. Dickinson's informality with death gives a sense of nostalgic familiarity that  can only be achieved after a lifetime of friendship. Dickinson's impression of Immortality is starkly different from that of many other poets who believe that death will be relief, she implies death as only a stepping stone in her soul's travels.