Emily Dickinson's I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died

Emily Dickinson’s poem “ I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-” depicts the events that took place around the speaker’s death bed. The image of the “fly buzzing” shows the sound of death and how her death is fast approaching for her. Meanwhile, she describes the surrounding of her room by comparing the “stillness in the air” to the calmness between “Heaves of Storm”. The environment is fairly quiet with only the sound of buzzing from the fly showing the calmness before death. In the second stanza, it refers to the people around her as “The Eyes around” and that they were not crying over her condition before death. Their firmness in understanding the reality and possibly readying their mindset after her death makes the surrounding unusually quiet for a death setting. The third stanza shows how the speaker divides the will
While the fly’s sound depicts the sound of death approaching, the fly itself shows disbelief over the speaker’s death and her actions of giving wealth to relatives who are around the speaker’s death bed. In the second stanza, the fly is shown flying at the time when the speaker assigns wealth to relatives. In the same stanza, it shows the behavioral characteristics of the speaker’s relatives where not a single tear and the entire family “gathering firm” depicting a sense of peace in the form of the speaker’s death. The fact that the fly comes back shows that something is wrong and also shows the love that the speaker yearned for during her last moments. The last stanza which depicts the fly “interposing” the speaker’s view of light depicts the fly’s positivity in a way that wishes the speaker to not regret anything before death and have a peacefull one. Light has the tedency to make people ponder over choices made and regrets that people have over what they could have done in life. The fly shuts off the light and forms a peacefull passage towards