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

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“I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-” is not only about the possible lack of a god, it’s also about the process of dying. The narrator of this poem is narrating his last few moments of life, and while doing so he can only notice this tiny insignificant fly buzzing around him. The might represent how in the final moments of life the big things do not matter anymore and the small details become more important. Another theory about the fly is that the fly helps represent the loss of the human senses as we die. The narrator at the beginning notices the “buzz” (line 1) the of the fly and in last line the narrator says “the window failed – and then I could not see” (line 15-16) Dickinson uses the visual representation to show how death leaves everyone
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