contexts: `` Because I could not stop for Death '' is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems : Series 1 in 1890 . The persona of Dickinson 's poem meets personified Death . Death is a gentleman caller who takes a leisurely carriage ride with the speaker to her grave . According to Thomas H. Johnson 's variorum edition of 1955 the number of this poem is 712 .
name: Because I could not stop for Death
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answers.span_text: Poems : Series 1
questions.input_text: where was because i could not stop for death published