for which i have been waiting my whole life
The answer is:
It is a common symbol of death that requires little description.
In the poem "Because I could not stop for Death
," the author Emily Dickinson does not provide a detailed characterization of the setting sun. The reason is, even though the speaker is not ready to meet Death yet, the writer wishes to portray the end of life as a natural, inevitable event, which leads to eternity.
It is imagery, repetition, tone
