This poem is taken from the perspective of looking back at Dickinson's death, a century after it occurred. As a reader you come to find out because in the second verse Dickinson says, "we drove slowly - She knew no hurry" this itself can be interpreted in many ways, one of which is that death itself can be slow, as in the case of Emily Dickinson died after that she was diagnosed with a brilliant disease. Dickinson continues to talk about death in this poem but in a different way than in the past, unlike many of Dickinson's other poems about death or dying, Death in this poem takes shape as a character and not just an event. In the very first line Dickinson introduces the reader to Death by saying, “Because he could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me.” (Johnson 712). Throughout these poems Dickinson places a lot of symbolism in this poem with things having to do with death such as the carriage in the poem the carriage takes death and the speaker on a journey looking back at the speaker's life, the way the carriage relates to death is a coffin because a coffin will take a person on their final journey into the physical world and bring the person the next part of their life. Dickinson gives clues and little hints to her readers to show them that she is talking about death. One of Dickinson's most popular clues is that she will end most of her poems in a hyphen. This is because Dickinson did not know what happened after death, if there was such a thing as the afterlife, so instead of ending his poems with the period symbolizing a certain end, he ended them with a hyphen because from that moment anything could happen.