These cycles of life are most evident in stanza 3. The narrator takes note of her surroundings as she travels to this unknown destination with death. The stanza opens with her talking about “School, where children toiled at recess,” which represents childhood and the beginning of life (lines 9-10). The children are the shining example of purity and reflect the narrator's youth. Next the woman and Death passed the “Contemplative Wheatfields,” which represent middle age because the wheat is ripening (line 11). Finally, they passed the “setting sun,” which in literature is a universal symbol of the approaching end. In the case where the setting sun represents the death of the narrator (line