Compare and contrast Troy’s perspectives on death with the speaker of the poem’s perspective. What is the significance of the personification of Death in Troy’s soliloquy and the speaker in Dickinson’s poem? What does the personification of death in both texts convey about how they (Troy and the speaker) face their mortality? Respond in a paragraph or more.

“Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” and Troy’s Soliloquy in Act I, Scene 1 of Fences

Read the following passage: he roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. the pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more ghastly hue— but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone out. the once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually characterized his utterance. there were times, indeed, when i thought his unceasingly agitated mind was laboring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage. which of the above ideas might be considered foreshadowing? he is wandering all over the chamber his skin tone is really pale his voice is quivering the narrator thinks he is laboring with an oppressive secret