This poem by Emily Dickinson is yet again a poem about death, as she writes about so often. This poem explained the person who is dying to have a a painless death, but yet it seems to be extremely gruesome in vision. The fly in the poem is very important and significant and is also in 4 different lines throughout the poem. The fly symbolizes death. The fly is the main image in the poem and is what the speaker sees and experiences as she is dying. The air in the room is still and quiet, there are people watching over her silently as she is dying, but she only hears the fly. The line that says, “The Eyes around – had wrung them dry” explains how the people who are witnessing this death have no more tears to cry and no more grief left to give. “The last onset” is her last breath, the end of one life, yet the beginning of her eternal life. She is ready to die and anticipates her death. Now the fly appears to her again, although “the king” mentioned, who may be God, does not appear. This may be a sign that she has no passed, since the fly may represent death again. This may say that after all, there is no life after death for her. This poem was very eerie in my opinion, but yet again another well written poem by Dickinson.
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