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Emily Dickinson's 'I Heard A Fly Buzz'

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The poem “I heard a Fly buzz” by Emily Dickinson, I liked this poem as it gave a sense of humor. The poem is about a person lying there dying but as he/she is trying to pass over and see the light in peace they hear a fly buzz. The fly disrupts the peacefulness in the room with the passing over. I got this interpretation as the quote from the text said, “With blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz - Between the light – and me” indicating that the buzzing was distracting the speaker from dying in peace. Reading this poem I get the idea that the speaker was not really dying but wanted to know the feeling of dying, to find his/her inner beliefs of afterlife and their individualism. This interpretation of the poem makes sense because normally when one

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