Writing Resources
Emily Dickinson uses point if view in I Heard a Fly buzz when I died In this poem Emily Dickinson looks back at the moment of death when death is happening The theme of this poem is that death is meaningless After trying to tell everyone that she heard a fly buzz when she passed away Emily Dickinson tells us the moment that made up to this event The first part of the poem describes the silence of the room before she died as like the quiet between two parts of a storm Emily dickinson talk about how death is beautiful Dickinson and that is depressing In lines 5 and 6 she says the eyes around me had wrung them dry Dickinson That quote means that people were crying too much that their eyes are dry The people that were crying are depressed resigned or even at peace The quoted evidence illustrates the theme by that people are crying or even at peace that death is meaningless to Emily dickinson and she is depressing but people were crying that much that their eyes were dry In lines 7 and 8 Emily dickinson says for the last onset when the king be witnessed in the room Dickinson What we think we are probably going to see and what all those dry eyes are probably watching for is death and all it talks about is death This is the part when everything is going to change forever when a person is really dead when they breath for the last time
