The Poem Analysis Of I Heard A Fly Buzz

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The poem, “I heard a Fly buzz”, written by Emily Dickinson is written in perfect iambic meter. The first and third lines in each of the four stanzas are written in iambic tetrameter. The second and the fourth lines are iambic trimeter. This iambic meter gives the poem a smooth flow when being read. Emily Dickinson wasn 't a poet of her time period because she chose to use a writing form that differed from the norm. She used the perfect iambic meter to convey the idea of peace that is used throughout the poem. The poem takes place at the moment right before someone passes away. During the period when this person is dying everything is perfect except for this fly. The fly represents imperfection and shows how nothing in life is perfect not even death. The imperfection in her form is seen through here usage of dashes to separate ideas. The dashes act as a counterbalance to the even rhythm of each line. She uses the dashes to make the reader pause as they move through the poem. The dashes convey the thought process of the speaker on their death bed. This curveball in her form pushes the idea that even something …show more content…

The speaker of the poem is dead and is recalling on the final moments of their life. This can be seen when she says, “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died”(1), in the first line of the poem. She does this in the first line to show the reader that she can 't change the imperfections that occurred in her life. After making it known that she is dead the speaker moves on to talk about the setting of her death. She talks about “stillness”(2) of the room and how it was peaceful and undisturbed. The speaker compares the stillness in the room to the period between storms. The period “Between the Heaves of Storm”(4) is thought to be peaceful, but is just an illusion because there is another storm coming. This period between storms is a metaphor for the peace in life that can be broken in a moments

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