In Emily Dickinson’s eyes home is the afterlife. Every human being eventually has a date with death. As humans, we do not look forward to dying. However death does not negotiate with humans it comes to take us home when our time on earth has come to an end. Emily says because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me. Death comes for Emily in the form of a man who takes her on a horse and carriage ride. As Emily is riding with death they passed a school, where Children played during recess, they passed the fields of gazing grain and they passed the sun setting or rather the sun passed them. As Emily is on the horse ride to eventually meet her fate she is calm and collected. Her calmness comes to an end when the wind picks up and she
