Because I could not stop for Death

“My house of stone, your ivy grows”

Angela & Uncle Jerry draw a significant connection between ivy and Emily Dickinson's 'Because I could not stop for Death.' Uncle Jerry quotes the poem's penultimate verse describing a 'house that seemed a swelling of the ground', a grave, and connects it to ivy's 'my house of stone.' Both works feature a speaker who is dead or in a liminal death state, a visitor who comes to the grave, and the imagery of stone as tombstone. Uncle Jerry notes this is a very famous Dickinson poem that Taylor likely read in high school.