In Emily Dickinson’s poem, I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-, she writes about death, one of life’s essential truths. She explains the unimportance of death in this poem. Emily Dickinson uses a fly to get this point across. Flies are very annoying, we usually try to ignore them when they are around, as humans we could care less about a fly. In Emily’s poem, the dying character focuses on the fly and its buzzing, not on the end of her life. Death isn’t bothering her, death is actually anticlimactic.
The end of someone’s life should be considered a big deal. A life shouldn’t end with a peculiar encounter with a fly, it should be way more than that. Death will be one of the most climatic events in someone’s life, especially to Christians, because our life in heaven will begin. It works for non-believers too, they will arrive at the most gruesome place ever. In a way, death is the gateway to eternal happiness, or eternal suffering, and that is a very big deal.
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