2、寫作手法：
詩人用韻以押頭韻為主，有時也用尾韻和中間韻，造成不同的音樂韻律和聽覺效果。在第三詩節采用了三個首讀重復（We passed），濃墨重彩地渲染了人的壹生的不同階段：童年，school；成年，field，gazing，成熟期，辛苦勞作的時間；晚年，setting sun；走向死亡。從中可以看出她善於將抽象的概念具象化，賦予難以琢磨、無法言傳的抽象事物以鮮明的形象和生命力，從而給人深刻的印象。
在這首詩中，Emily用了壹些特別鮮明的意象，特別是她以死神為駕車邀她出遊朋友的意象，貫穿詩歌的始終，前後呼應，渲染烘托了氣氛。詩人賦予她的意象以深刻的內涵，成為她闡述對死亡與永恒的思想、觀點，表達感情和再現場景的重要媒介。
3、修辭：象征、意象、擬人、聯覺、隱喻
4、主題：
旨在探索詩中女主人公“我”與死神之旅的真正含義。本文通過“我”再次經歷詩歌中象征人生的三個階段後而頓悟，從而實現了質的升華而具有了神性，通往永生的追求。
Emily Dickinson uses remembered images of the past to clarify infinite conceptions through the establishment of a dialectical relationship between reality and imagination, the known and the unknown.
Dickinson’s simply constructed yet intensely felt, acutely intellectual
writings take as their subject issues vital to humanity: the agonies and
ecstasies of love, sexuality, the unfathomable nature of death, the horrors
of war, God and religious belief, the importance of humor, and musings
on the significance of literature, music, and art.
Emily Dickinson enjoys the King James Version of the Bible, as well
as authors such as English WRTERS William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles
Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, and Thomas Carlyle.
Dickinson’s early style shows the strong influence of William Shakespeare,
Barrett Browning, Scottish poet Robert Browning, and English poets John
Keats and George Herbert. And Dickinson read Emerson appreciatively, who
became a pervasive and, in a sense, formative influence over her. As George
F. Whicher notes, "Her sole function was to test the Transcendentalist
ethic in its application to the inner life".
1“death” in Emily Dickinson’s poets
For as long as history has been recorded and probably for much longer,
man has always been different idea of his own death. Even those of us who
have accepted death graciously, have at least in some way, --- feared,
dreaded, or attempted to delay its arrival. We have personified death--
as an evildoer dressed in all black, its presence swoops down upon us and
chokes the life from us as though it were some street murder with malicious
intent. But in reality, we know that death is not the chaotic grim reaper
of fairy tales and mythology. Rather than being a cruel and unfair prankster
of evil, death is an unavoidable and natural part of life itself.