• I heard a Fly Buzz when I died, poem 465 by Emily Dickinson

     

    Essays2 Literature

Evaluation:
Published: 15.05.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'I heard a Fly Buzz when I died, poem 465 by Emily Dickinson', 1.
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Extract

Emily Dickinson's poetry can be seen as a study of deep fears and emotions, specifically in her exploration of death. In her famous poem #465 Dickinson explores the possibility of a life without the elaborate, finished ending that her religious upbringing promised her. She forces herself to question whether there is a possibility of death being a mundane nothingness. In this last moment of doubt in the appearance of the divine, the speaker in the poem find an independent and personal acceptance of a death without profundity or salvation.
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