The color blue may have been used ironically with the fly that is usually symbolic of mortality, death, and decay. The dashes break up the line with pauses like a fly takes breaks in flight. She forces the reader to refocus on the fly again. In the next line the reader learns what the fly "interposed" on, "Between the light- and me-" (line 14). The light is a metaphor for what comes after death, the thing that we approach and enter as we die. And then, just like that, it 's over. "And then the Windows failed- and then" (line 15), he windows are a metaphor for the eyes. Her eyes close and there is blindness. In the last line she leaves the reader with, "I could not see to see-" (line 16). This indicates that there is no great vision after
The color blue may have been used ironically with the fly that is usually symbolic of mortality, death, and decay. The dashes break up the line with pauses like a fly takes breaks in flight. She forces the reader to refocus on the fly again. In the next line the reader learns what the fly "interposed" on, "Between the light- and me-" (line 14). The light is a metaphor for what comes after death, the thing that we approach and enter as we die. And then, just like that, it 's over. "And then the Windows failed- and then" (line 15), he windows are a metaphor for the eyes. Her eyes close and there is blindness. In the last line she leaves the reader with, "I could not see to see-" (line 16). This indicates that there is no great vision after