Read these lines from Emily Dickinson's "712" ("Because I could not stop for Death"): We slowly drove - He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For his civility -

What is one purpose of the personification in this excerpt?

A. It links two unlike concepts: death and leisure
B. It expresses a feeling of satisfaction on a life well lived
C. It presents death as having a sense of patient acceptance
D. It makes the carriage seem like a friend to the speaker.