This poem tells us about the meeting of the living with death. The lady poet accompanies death as his beloved and bride in the carriage. The carriage is nothing but a hearse. she accompanies him along with the hope of immortality. During the journey she leaves behind her childhood, her youth and her old age. she leaves behind everything of life.
In this poem the poetess tells us about her imaginative experience of death. She thinks over the meaning of death and goes deep into the mystery of death. The poetess personifies death as a courteous gentleman. Death meets her on the road of life . He takes her in his carriage for a ride. The poem describes this ride, and the feelings of the poetess during this ride. The ride is a symbol of man's last journey on the earth. The carriage is a symbol of the hearse.
The idea of death is treated without any of the emotions of fear, anxiety or pain. It is personified as a gentle friend who is talking the poetess on a carriage ride to eternity. Another passenger in the carriage is immortality . Thus we see life after death as an eternal journey.
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