What Is The Point Of View In The Fly's Poem About Emily

In Herbert Lomas poem “The Fly’s Poem about Emily” he tells the poem in a fly’s point of view from Emily Dickinson point of view in her story “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-” about how in Lomas poem the fly is happy to eat and the poet gets distracted by in before she dies. With comparing Lomas poem to Emily Dickinson poem she uses death for her main point while Lomas uses that to create a second piece in how both different points of view relate to death. The two literary elements that forms both poems is diction, their word choice, and point of view by also using the critical strategy, formalism to identify the work in itself. Lomas poem is about how the point of view from a fly tells how it finds food and buzzes around happy for death. In Dickinson’s poem she tells the story of how a female poet is dieing and how she sees the light until the fly gets between her and the light.

He used a sort of rhythm in the two sentences that made the poem somewhat funny, “ I ate their meat. I was the fly on the dead pet’s feet” (Lomas 626). Just how he words it, to me it seems ridiculous and genius to make this words rhyme in a funny way. But in Dickinson’s poem she is more serious and talks about going to heaven,”For that last Onset- when the King Be witnessed- in the Room-” (Dickinson 844). Both authors use diction to describe their surrounding in there own point of view. In Lomas’s poem the fly is eating the pet when she was received by God. “Later I ate her. My buzz is no bell” (lomas 627) explains how the fly does have to wait to eat and that is free food basically without getting