Because I Heard A Fly Buzz By Emily Dickinson

Words: 409
Pages: 2

Despite being one of life’s few certainties, for several of us, death is not particularly fascinating. In fact, numerous people rarely contemplate death and what lies after until Unfortunately, it hits close to home. Regardless if death and the afterlife are a topic of contemplation, each of us can agree that it is inevitable. In Emily Dickinson’s “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz,” despite sharing similar themes, each displays a unique interpretation of mortality, evoking thoughts, and emotions regarding our journey into eternity, despair, or nothingness. Using elaborate literary techniques to give shape to death, both of Dickinson's poetic works, though contradictory at times, allow unique interpretations of this journey and emphasize that death comes in numerous shapes and forms. …show more content…
Primarily, the theme of both poems is death; which becomes apparent immediately in the first stanza of each work of art. “Because I could not stop for death /he kindly stopped for me.” (,1-2) “I heard a fly buzz -when I died-.” (p753,1) Equally important, as with various works of Dickinson’s, each contains a discernible rhyme scheme known as ABCB; in which the second and fourth line rhyme, however, the rhyme is not perfect. For example, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” the ABCB rhyme scheme appears in the first