Dickinson Journal

I am going a blog over the poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died" by Emily Dickinson. The poem itself is about a a person who is dieing and describing what they are feeling in and what they saw right before their final breath. She describes things by comparing it to other things instead of just saying that was literally happening at the time. For example "The stillness round my form ;Was like the stillness in the air ;Between the heaves of storm." (Dickinson) is comparing how dead the room feel to the stillness to the time between storms. This is a upper level skill in writing because it is hard to do comparisons to other completely different things while getting the point you were trying to make across. The poem also brings out emotion in the reader, especially because it is is about death. Emotions in a story is really hard to do successfully because writing about something that is going to get to most of the readers takes a lot of thought. There are things that certain people might connect to while others will. This is something that makes the author have to think about who they are writing too. In this poem Emily found a way to write to everyone because we are all going to die someday and are going to have to deal with death as some point in our lives. She says "Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then ;I could not see to see." (Dickinson), which is important because it is when the person finally passes away at the end. This is something that everyone can connect with because they know this is their inevitable fate as a human. There is no cheating death, which is what i believe made this poem so popular.





Dickinson, Emily. "128."I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died." Part Four: Time and Eternity. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems." 128. "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died."Part Four: Time and Eternity. Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems. Bartleby, 2012. Web. 27 Mar. 2012. .