When Death stops for the speaker, he holds a horse-drawn carriage as they travel to her grave. This carriage symbolizes a hearse carrying his coffin to the grave a day or two after his death. As they ride, they pass, “the School… / the contemplative cornfields – / [and] the setting sun –” (lines 9-12). These three symbolize the speaker's life, from childhood in the backyards, to work in the fields, and finally to the twilight of his life. When the speaker and Death arrive home, it is night. The house symbolizes a mausoleum or his tomb and, in the latter case, he describes it as a house under the ground to represent that he is comfortable and accepting of his death and his tomb. In the final stanza, the speaker states that she, "first [supposes] that the horses' heads [are] towards eternity" (lines 23-24). It uses the horses' heads as a warm sense of direction, which ironically is not to a concrete place but to a place unaware of