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I Heard The Fly Buzz When I Died:

 

 

                Emily Dickinson’s thoughts reflect in the way she wrote the poem and how the person dying is waiting for this moment of their life and expecting it to be the best moment. But as they are there on the edge of their life reflecting on how it all is good they hear a fly buzzing. That is the last thing they hear and now the entire moment of their death is ruined. She is saying that death is just another point of your life and it isn’t some big extravagant event that is going to be ruined by one little thing. She is saying don’t make death the biggest part of your life just to have it ruined by a tiny fly.

               

                I don’t understand why anyone would want death to be the main event of their life. Why would you focus on death when you can live a good life and not have it ruined by a fly? I agree with Emily Dickinson’s thoughts in how she says that if a fly ruins the moment it wasn’t that big of a deal in the first place, because if it was supposed to be the best moment in life then not even a cannon could ruin it. Death is just another moment in life that happens and the fly just proves that it is.