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2. Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson
Published posthumously, Dickinson writes of Death as a gentlemen who accompanies the poet on a carriage ride to her grave. Because she could not stop for death, Death, being a gentleman, stopped for her. Haunting and beautiful.