Emily Dickinson I Heard A Fly Buzz
Emily Dickenson’s poem “I heard a fly buzz- when I died- “is a great example of don’t judge a book by its cover. In “I heard a fly buzz-as I died”, Emily Dickinson uses symbols, imagery, similes and themes to show what it can be like when someone is dying. When you first read the title u probably think that the poem will be about the fly and her dying but as a matter of fact the poem’s title is an oxymoron. The oxymoronic “I heard a fly buzz when I died” is in the sense a death poem about life. When hearing a poet write about their death we usually thinks it’s about to happen or it’s happening but not that it has already happened. Emily Dickinson puts the theme of death out there in the beginning of her poem by saying “I heard a Fly buzz
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In lines 2-4 when she says, “the stillness in the room was like the stillness in the air between the heaves of storm” she is using a simile. The simile is comparing the air in the room with the feeling of the air during a lull in a storm. Maybe the air is wet and heavy, but the rain is gone for a moment. Here the storm is emotional and personal, and we know more is coming. Maybe the whole room was still and quite because they wanted to spend as much time with the speaker before she crossed over. It was like the eye of a hurricane hectic on the outside but really calm on the inside and Emily Dickinson wanted us to realize that by adding that simile in her …show more content…
When she says that "The Eyes around – had wrung them dry – " we know a number of things immediately. There are other people here. They love this dying person enough to cry. They are also beyond crying – maybe exhausted, maybe finally at peace with what is happening. It could also mean that “the eyes” have been wide open because the person who they belong to doesn’t want to go to sleep and miss something important so they are dried out. It’s a neat how just that little detail, one line, got our imaginations thinking and we imagined an entire story. When the author added that in to the poem she wanted us to understand that the speaker wasn’t alone and lonely but that her/his family was with them. You should never be alone at a time like
In lines 2-4 when she says, “the stillness in the room was like the stillness in the air between the heaves of storm” she is using a simile. The simile is comparing the air in the room with the feeling of the air during a lull in a storm. Maybe the air is wet and heavy, but the rain is gone for a moment. Here the storm is emotional and personal, and we know more is coming. Maybe the whole room was still and quite because they wanted to spend as much time with the speaker before she crossed over. It was like the eye of a hurricane hectic on the outside but really calm on the inside and Emily Dickinson wanted us to realize that by adding that simile in her …show more content…
When she says that "The Eyes around – had wrung them dry – " we know a number of things immediately. There are other people here. They love this dying person enough to cry. They are also beyond crying – maybe exhausted, maybe finally at peace with what is happening. It could also mean that “the eyes” have been wide open because the person who they belong to doesn’t want to go to sleep and miss something important so they are dried out. It’s a neat how just that little detail, one line, got our imaginations thinking and we imagined an entire story. When the author added that in to the poem she wanted us to understand that the speaker wasn’t alone and lonely but that her/his family was with them. You should never be alone at a time like