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I believe that Dickinson’s poem “I heard a fly buzz--when I died” is more so about life rather than death. I feel as though this fly she often speaks of, once in the first line and than again in the twelfth, may represent something she regrets not doing while she was alive. Where she states “ with blue, uncertain stumbling buzz” it could be describing this regret, uncertain and stumbling making reference to the unknown factor considering she had not done it as well as blue meaning either its almost depressing that she didn’t or that this action and or gesture could have been a melancholy one. This theory is also supported by where she states “between the light and me” I infer that maybe this one thing, this fly, is standing in her way; stopping her from moving on and laying herself, her sole to rest.



//Emily Dickinson//
“I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—“ (823-824)

I heard a Fly buzz—when I died— The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air— Between the Heaves of Storm—

The Eyes around—had wrung them dry— And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset—when the King Be witnessed—in the Room—

I willed my Keepsakes—Signed away What portion of me be Assignable—and then it was There interposed a Fly—

With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— Between the light—and me— And then the Windows failed— and then I could not see to see— 