In Emily Dickinson's poems, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" and "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" the personas have an adolescent naive ness and arrogance towards two different ideas: death and society.
             In Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", the persona does not realize she is heading towards death until halfway through her journey. For her it is a nice little carriage date. The poems physical structure is in correlation with her realization of the transition into death. The first three stanzas include a persona, which is happy and calm almost naive to the fact that the carriage is heading towards death. This can be observed in the lines, "The Carriage held but just Ourselves--/And Immortality--"(3-4). The persona mentions immortality as though she thinks that she is going to live forever when in fact she is not. However, when the poem enters the last three stanzas the tone shifts to a gloomy and confused state. "Or rather-He passed Us--"(13) the persona says with utter confusion realizing that she is dying.
             The personas journey commences with a gentleman named Death, who "kindly stopped" (2) for her. The persona is naive and almost girl-like to think death is kind. The carriage ride is slow and her suitor "knew no haste"(5). She is mentioning how polite this man is for driving so slow and making the ride long and pleasurable. In the lines "And I had put away/ My labor and my leisure too,For His Civility--"(6-8), the persona is willing to drop everything she was doing and what she had for the civil man who to her is taking her on a site seeing trip in a carriage.
             Entering the third stanza Dickinson uses symbolism to portray the stages of life. Youth is symbolized by "Children strove/At recess-in the Ring--"(9-10), growing up is symbolized by the "Gazing Grain--"(11) and the end of life is s...