Emily Dickinson I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died

Question 1

Dickinson understood experience of feeling before death, on death bed

Answer 1

The stillness in the room- Was like the Stillness in the Air

Question 2

Death is welcomed fate, speaker has accepted and prepared for death

Answer 2

I will my keepsakes- Signed away. What portion of me to be Assignable

Question 3

Speaker allows peaceful process to be interrupted by insignificant fly

Answer 3

There interposed a fly- with Blue- uncertain Stumbling buzz-Between the light- and me