I Heard A Fly Buzz-When I Died By Emily Dickinson

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In “I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died” by Emily Dickinson the iambic meter is used.
Similar to Shakespeare, Dickinson choses to put into use the iambic pentameter. The use of the meter enhances the poem, enabling the reader to go through the text with an easy rhythm in which one can digest the passage. “I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died” is a very complex poem, that may be difficult to analyze, but by breaking the poem apart piece by piece, using the iambic pentameter, analyzation becomes much easier. “I heard /a Fly /buzz - when /I died -/” (1) the pentameter stresses heard, fly, when, and died. Using those clues it is noted that the speaker is perhaps no longer living, based on the fact that he or she said “when” and “died”, which is past tense.the next three lines “The Still/ness in/ the Room/, Was like/ the Still/ness in/ the Air -/, Between /the Heaves/ of …show more content…

“Still” is a word emphasized more than once in this section, everything was as still as the air between the heavy torrents of a storm. Again the speaker sounds removed from the situation, speaking again in the past tense, “The Eyes/ around /- had wrung/ them dry ” (5) The speaker explains others “The Eyes around” had cried until there was nothing left to cry. Afterward talking about his or her will and keepsakes. The poem then switches gears and begins talking about a fly. The pentameter places emphasis on sensory words like “blue”, “buzz”, and “see”, giving strong imagery and symbolism to the stanza. The fly could very easily be a representation of the speakers life. “With Blue/ -

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