The speaker is accompanied by Death and Immortality who are also exemplified as the other occupant. This can seem ironic, but maybe it signifies that through a person's body as mature and destined by period, the souls recovered by Death are eternal. The speaker's slow drive in the carriage displays a metaphorical logic of timelessness in the after life, where people do not have any rush in any expedition. The lines, "And I had put away" (6) and, "My labor and my leisure too" (7) express that the speaker does not have to worry about worldly life and that can be comfort under Death's respectful behaviors. .
In the stanzas three and four a lot of symbolism was founded too. The drive of the speaker with Death and Immorality symbolizes her "leaving" her life in the past. While the speaker "passes" (10) away, she is in a journey through all the moments of her life. They pass the school at first where the children "strove" having fun at recess. This line has a meaning, and it signifies one of the first phases of the speaker's life, in this case her childhood. The "ring" symbolizes childhood being timeless. To the perspective of a child, time seems eternal with no thought of death. The third stanza signifies the transition of life from her childhood to death. Another thing about the third stanza is that the speaker is having her last glance of human life.
The grain symbolizes the maturity of growth in her life time. It also signifies the concept of richness and futurity, and that hopefully the narrator can look back and feel that she has grown and mature through her lifetime. At the culmination of the third stanza, the setting of the sun represents the transition of life's final stages to death. The sun is being personified and it becomes a being, as the woman converts to an observer of death. With the disappearance of the sun, the environment becomes cold.