Secondly, all of Dickinson's work uses numerous poetic devices such as personification, metaphors, alteration, rhyme, and tone throughout the poem to create dramatize the meaning of death and create intense imagery. In the first poem, Emily Dickinson uses personification to shows how she and death travel together in the stanza two “We slowly drove‐He knew no haste”(Dickinson “ Because I could Not Stop For Death” 5). Death is being personified as a person who is driving to death. She said, “I could not stop for Death–/so He kindly stopped for” her (Dickinson 1-2). Dickinson personifies death as a “kindly” because death cannot literally stop to wait for someone but in here death took time for her. Also, she portrays that death acts like a person
