Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –
During her life Emily Dickinson was sourounded by loss and illness, her favorite nephew, friends she grew up with or learned to love, and she even spent her last waking years taking care of her mother. And as such she constantly found herself in depressions, her wrightings often reflected this. Such as this one, the lines "Because I could not stop for death-- he kindly stopped for me" personalize this. As does the rest of the poem. She just wanted to peacefully live her life but death seemed to follow her wherever she went.