In "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" the poet has
died. Death is personified as a gentleman who picks her up in a carraige and carries
her to her grave. All of her work and play have been put aside to attend to him. They
pass by children and grain, still very much a part of life and arrive at a "house", or
her grave, "the cornice but a mound"
In "Our Casuarina
Tree', the poet is still very much alive. Her siblings have died. The tree brings back
memories of wonderful times she has had with her siblings who she "loved with love
intense". Death is seen as an intense emotion of sorrow for the loss of another that
can be overcome with memories. She never wants these memories to die, so she wants the
tree to continue on into Obliviion.
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