This line shows that death is calm and respectful Immortality is also present in the carriage with them She writes nbsp The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality nbsp This journey on Death s carriage is symbolic It means the poet s death But the presence of Immortality on the carriage suggests that death is not the end Their journey continues into Eternity It means death is a way for our souls to be immortal in the eternal afterlife nbsp The Journey That Leads to Eternal Life The journey in Death s carriage is the symbol of the soul s journey to death and beyond They move slowly through different scenes of life They pass a schoolyard a field of grain and the setting sun These scenes represent childhood adulthood and the end of life After passing these stages the carriage stops before a house It looks like A Swelling of the Ground This means the house is actually a grave From this point the soul moves toward its immortal destination away from the physical world nbsp Soul s Journey into Immortality In the final stanza Dickinson shows how immortality feels The poet says it has been Centuries since she started the journey in Death s carriage But it feels shorter than the Day It means the poet's soul is now in an eternal world Then the poet first realizes that the horses are going towards Eternity She writes nbsp I first surmised the Horses' Heads Were toward Eternity nbsp This line is very important because it shows that time no longer exists for the soul When the soul becomes immortal days and centuries feel the same Time becomes endless and peaceful This is Dickinson s way of saying that immortality is not just living forever it is entering a state beyond time nbsp The Mind Crossing Into an Unknown Endless State Another poem that helps us understand Dickinson s idea of immortality is I felt a Funeral in my Brain This poem does not speak directly about death But it shows the moment when human sense breaks and something new begins The poet imagines her mind going through a funeral At one point she describes that a plank of the coffin breaks and she falls down and down into the unknown worlds She writes nbsp And then a Plank in Reason broke And I dropped down and down - nbsp At the end she writes nbsp And Finished knowing then nbsp The poem ends with then because the experience after this point cannot be described Many readers feel that this moment suggests the soul crossing into another state a state that is endless silent and beyond human understanding This can be seen as a type of immortality where the soul continues its existence after the mind can no longer think in the human way nbsp Immortality as a Mystery Not a Fear Dickinson s treatment of immortality is gentle and peaceful She does not describe it as something scary Instead she shows it as a spiritual mystery The soul does not disappear It moves from the physical world into another endless space nbsp To sum up Emily Dickinson explores immortality as a natural and calm experience Through her images of a carriage ride a grave and the breaking of the mind she shows that death is only the beginning of a new journey Immortality is a world beyond time where the soul continues to live in eternity