Ourselves/ And Immortality'. Death is civil, relaxed and unhurried as we can establish by 'his Civility' and 'he knew no haste'. Death has no concept of time. Time !
             is an earthly concern, and Death, is not bound by such earthly concepts. She had 'put away' her hectic life to go with Death, who she possibly found charming, and seemed to seduce her away from her life. Even though she has put away this hectic life, she still cannot help but be distracted by the things in her past life. The things that she is seeing from the carriage seem to be more meaningful to her now that she is looking back at them. These things are so common that she may not have stopped to notice them before and she took them for granted in the daily grind of life. She sees the children playing 'in a ring', possibly playing 'ring a ring a roses'; the ring having significance for human beings as they are a symbol of eternity. This is an early stage in her life the fate that wove her life. The grain growing in the fields is a symbol for the natural world as she knows it, only now that she is with Death the grain seems to be 'gazing' back at her. The 'setting sun' is the !
             universal clock that humans measure their lives on earth by. As they pass by, she seems to pass into a new dimension. The woman seems troubled by her separation from nature especially when she notices that instead of her passing the sun, the sun seems to be passing her. The sun is moving along its daily course while she seems to be almost motionless. This suggests that she has lost the power to move by herself and that time is passing her by. 'The setting sun' is the end of life, old age and at this point Dickinson's rhythm also changes from a regular beat to a much shorter, darker feeling rhythm. Up until this point the poem is comforting, reassuring and philosophical where the rhythm is gentle and...