Importance of the Worldly Pleasures in Dickinson’s Poem

In Emily Dickinson's, I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -, Dickinson highlights the importance of the worldly pleasures as the main character slowly passes away. Her way of sentimental wording and personification while describing the journey of death leads the reader into a deeper, The fly in the poem represents death. As she's laying down, everything is in place and as it should be, then in comes the fly. It is as if the fly is an intruder, and as time passes by, things become more uncomfortable and closer to end of her death. The peacefulness that the poem began with was abruptly stopped., and the chaos started to begin Throughout the poem, Dickinson is able to use her climatic writing skills along with meter, that allows the poem to flow so smoothly. Meter, stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, helps to add a flow to the reading. It adds a rhythmical sound and is very pleasantly tuned. Also, her well-known dashes are used plenty in this poem to break apart, causing you to pause and think throughout certain ideas that you might not have thought of without them. With Dickinson's well-known dashes, she's able to move at a fast pace within the first few lines. The poem starts off with, I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died “1 , which is pretty simple at first, but after the first dash, we can suddenly interpret that the speaker of this poem is dead. Now the perspective of the reader is completely different, as the character very suddenly died. From lines 2-4, Emily chooses to focus more so on the scene of death, rather than the fly. She explains how quiet, yet still, the room was. She does this by comparing two things, a still room and a storm, The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air “Between the Heaves of Storm2-4. So, in conclusion, the reader is able to tell that there is some realization of peace and quiet, but the worst of the poem is yet to happen. In the next few lines of the poem, we go without seeing any writing regarding a fly anymore. The character rather focuses on things like her will, which isn't unusual considering she's on her deathbed, along with the family and friends that watch as the light leaves her body. But in line 12, There interposed a Flythe fly is once again mentioned. This line breaks into the poem and breaks the short-lived continuity of her deathbed scene. The last stanza of I heard a Fly buzz - when I died - is undoubtedly one of the most important parts of this poem. From Between the lightand me14, we're now able to clarify that this blockadge of light must've come from the fly. That light that is being blocked is a metaphor for what is soon to come after the characters death. From lines 15-16, it is said that her eyes have closed, interpreting that she had finally died. .At the very beginning of this poem, there is family, there is stillness, and reason for life. But by the end of the poem, there's a disturbing fly, and a mask of death that lurks over her, coming closer by every line. A mysterious nothingness enters and leaves the poem and leaves you with an uncomfortable image of the final moments of someone's life.

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