I Heard a Fly Buzz analysis

Emily Dickinson, one of the most admired and loved American poets, is famous not only for her skillful works of art but also for living a weird life. As well known, Dickinson rarely left her house throughout her lifetime, concentrating only on writing letters and poems. Still, unlike such an introverted life she has lived, Emily Dickinson’s works are full of sharp and strange images such as death or dark emotions. "I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died" is a good example. The poem describes the very moment of death, but lacks a conventional image of silence or religion. Instead, there interposes a fly, a symbol of pest and gross.
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
Only a few words used there, but Dickinson have already provided the readers pretty much information about her poem. A fly and death, two very spooky images together. Now the reader notices that he or she cannot expect peaceful death scene from the poem anymore.
Then the speaker suddenly provides us a close-out shot of the room fill of thick, heavy atmosphere. Lying on her deathbed, the speaker is prepared and is reverently waiting for the one final moment. People standing around her are also readied. No one makes a sound, firmly gathering their breaths altogether. What we, including the speaker herself and those dry eyes, are watching for, is death. The “last Onset.” From this moment, a mother, a lover, or maybe a friend will be gone forever. They will have to look up the past albums in order to meet her. They will never be able to see hear her voice or see her smiling. The atmosphere gets even heavier, and everything has got into place. The speaker feels King witnessed in the room. Only a few minutes are left until the very moment when everything changes forever. It’s an intruder, a weird, unnecessary, kind of gross little bug. This wasn’t exactly a happy poem to start with, but it was sort of peaceful. When the fly shows up, everything changes, and things get stranger and a lot less quiet and