Summary Of I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died

I know you are an American female poet and best known as one of the foremost authors in American literature. I know that you born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life, you enjoyed gardening and writing and tried to avoid visitor. You wrote almost 1800 poems while only seven of them were published in your life and more than 600 of them were related to death and eternity (Wikipedia, Emily Dickinson). In this letter, I would like to discuss with you about my opinions of your poem “I heard a Fly buzz - when I died”.
To begin, you describe a narrator’s sadder moment of death in a very different way than we would assume. The first stanza describes the silence of the room before the narrator’s death as like the quiet between two phases of a storm. The second stanza describes the people present at the deathbed. They are also quiet, exhausted from their watch and preparing now for the final loss. In the third stanza, the narrator says she has just made her last wishes known when the fly “interposed”. The last two lines of this stanza begin the long sentence that continues through the final stanza. This sentence describes how the fly seemed to blot out the light, and then all light ceased, leaving her conscious but utterly blinded which means the …show more content…
The window that used in fifteenth line can be a metaphor for the eyes. “Window failed,” means that the narrator’s eye, which is window of soul and spiritual blinds, is blurred. The window here can also be interpreted as a source of light and in this sense it means that the hope is fading away from the narrator. The last sentence “I could not see to see,” means that in traditional situation, mourners and even the man who is on the brink of death can see the situation in reality but the narrator of this poem