I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died Analysis

Emily Dickenson, an American poet, in her poem I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died illustrates the philosophy of American Romanticism. She demonstrates romanticism by intertwining nature and death (“I heard a Fly Buzz - when I died” (1), by explaining what happens after life (“For that last Onset – When the King / Be witnessed – in the Room” (7,8), by being highly imaginative (“With Blue – uncertain – stumbling Buzz / Between the light – and me”(13,14). In the first stanza of this poem the speaker is highly imaginative and tries to imagine what death would be like, the second stanza is what happens right after death, the third stanza is her being able to give all her possessions to others, and the fourth stanza a fly intrudes and blocks the speaker