In the poem, death is personified not as a frightening or sudden end, but as a gentle and dignified “gentleman.” The speaker says, “Because I could not stop for Death – / He kindly stopped for me –” implying that it is Death, not the speaker, who initiates death; this suggests that humans have no control over it. Only the speaker, Death, and Immortality are in the carriage; this tripartite structure indicates that the journey is more of a metaphysical passage than an ordinary physical movement. The scenes that unfold along the way...