can look straight at approaching death"(Nesteruk 188). In the focused poem "I heard a fly buzz when I died", she demonstrates her style of eerie, aberrant writing. She uses emotions like uselessness, hopelessness and carelessness. In the poem, Emily describes herself on her deathbead. She applies her acute senses and her natural impressions of scenes and moods. Various scholars have interpreted the fly's symbolism in this poem in different ways. Robert Wiesbuch, a celebrated analyst of American poetry from the University of Chicago said, She has chosen to symbolize life through the ugly annoyance of the fly," (Wiesbuch 59). Others, like Ruth Miller say, To the dying person, the buzzing fly would symbolize a timely, untimely reminder of man's final cadaverous condition and putrefaction, (Miller 127). Most critics agree with Miller on the fly's symbolism because their first impression is that the fly was to be used as a distraction to Emily's thoughts. Some scholars believe that the fly was supposed to represent a parasite, similar to a vulture waiting for an animal to die, The dull hum of the fly on the windowpane, suggesting the fly's anticipation of her as decaying flesh, ultimately echoes her larger theme that this world is all, (Mudge 76). Emily Dickinson used the feeling of the calm of the storm to describe the mysterious atmosphere in the beginning of her poem, "The stillness round my form; Was like the stillness in the air; Between the heaves of storm..." Next, she began to describe the last few moments leading up to her death, "The Mitchell 4eyes beside had wrung them dry,; And breaths were gathering sure; For that last onset" Dickinson then goes on to explain that she is prepared to die on this day, "I willed my keepsakes, signed away; What portion of me I; Could make assignable,--and then" Then the fly makes his unexpected experience, "There interposed a fly,; With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,; Between the light and me;" F...
