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The Theme of Death in Poems     Death is a common theme in many poems. It is viewed so differently toeveryone. In the poems, "Because I could not stop for Death," "First Death inNova Scotia," and "War is kind" death is presented by to each one narrator as somethingdifferent. To one it is a kind gentle stranger while to another it is a coldcruel being.     A kind humankind stranger personifies death in, "Because I could notstop for Death." The narrator of the poem is a busy person, with little time,and definitely no time to die. Her carriage driver, which is death, arrives to adjudge her into immortality. Death isnt hasty, he doesnt take her quickly. Hedrives her past things that the narrator had not taken the time to notice in awhile. The narrator watched as he drives her past a school, where children areplaying, and then on they go past fields. She sees the sun go down, and thecarriage driver past the sun, bu t she realizes they werent exhalation the sun, itwas passing them time was passing by, past her life. Her life has now past herby, and she is arriving at her final destination, which was her grave, stock-still shedescribes it as her house. In the end she is looking back, and sees howcenturies have passed, yet she isnt passing by anymore, and to her this hundredyears seems as no time at all. Finally she accepts her death, and is able topass into eternity. To her death wasnt har...