In the poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death", Emily Dickinson uses remembered images of the past to clarify unlimited concepts through the organization of a connection between reality and the mind's eye, the known and the unknown. By viewing this relationship in a deep manor, and ordering the phases of life to include death and eternity, Emily Dickinson proposes the nature of the limited and never-ending.

Imagery is the use of symbolic language to represent objects, actions, or ideas.

Dickinson's use of imagery constructs a picture of the past in the reader's mind.

In stanza three, line one, Emily mentions "We passed the School, where Children strove."

In my opinion, this was the author, remembering her past as a youthful, naive schoolgirl, with no worries or responsibilities. The words "quivering" and "chill" describe the clamminess and iciness of the night's dew, which also may be understood...