“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson

A poem from Emily Dickinson, given the AI music generation.
Published posthumously in 1890, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is arguably one of the poet’s most celebrated and most famous poems. In it, the speaker takes a carriage ride with personified death, who appears not as a menacing reaper but a “kindly” driver taking her to eternity. Like many funeral poems that give comfort to the grieving, Emily Dickinson’s piece-and the final stanza, in particular-suggests the dead might live on in the afterlife.