Critiques for Emily Dickinson's poems are abundant and "I Heard a Fly Buzz" discusses death, which originally drew me to Larkin’s “Aubade”. I chose the critical source written by Christopher Nesmith because he incorporates the criticisms we examined in class and adds his opinion in. Nesmith claims that the fly is not death, just a negative figure. I agree that the fly represents a negative figure, but I believe Dickinson adds the fly to the poem for the sole purpose of it representing the grim reaper coming for the speaker of the poem. Nesmith states that everything about death is predetermined and that the fly provides a break in the routine nature of the event. I disagree with this idea because, if Dickinson made the fly represents death,
