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In many clean cottages and genteel houses, they are allowed every liberty to creep, fly, or do as they like; and seldom or ever do wrong. In fact they are the small or dwarfish portion of our own family, and so many fairy familiars that we know and treat as one of ourselves. National Poetry Month. Materials for Teachers Teach This Poem. Poems for Kids. Poetry for Teens. Lesson Plans. Resources for Teachers. It suggests that the fly again came and disturbed the stillness and calmness of the room.

Hence, the fly here is considered as an intruder. In the last lines of the poem, the speaker tells us about the last moments of her life. She tells further about the fly. She says that the fly was blue and it started buzzing in the room and interrupted all the proceedings. Then suddenly the fly flew and came in front of the light and blocked it.

The speaker further tells us that the windows failed. It gives us the idea that maybe her eyes got closed and her connection with the outside world got disconnected.

Now she talks about her death and says that the moment when death came, her eyes got closed and after that, she was no longer able to see anything. The repetition of the same vowel sound in the same line is called assonance. In the poem, assonance is used in the following lines:. The repetition of the same consonant sound in the same line is called consonance. The technique in which a sentence is carried over to the next line without any pause, is known as Enjambment.

In the poem, Enjambment is used in the following lines:. Oxymoron is the use of contradictory terms that are close to each other. When the sound of anything is used to represent its name is known as Onomatopoeia. When a part of something is used to represent the whole, this figure of speech is termed as synecdoche. The writers use imagery to enable readers to visualize the feelings and emotions of the writer. In this poem, Emily has used imagery in the following lines:.

In these lines, the first two lines are the example of visual imagery while the next two lines attract the hearing sense. In this poem, the simile is used in the following line:. The hidden comparison between two things is known as metaphor. In this poem, the metaphor is used in the following line:. In this line, the windows are used as a metaphor for eyes.

When the writer gives the human attributes to the non-human objects, it is termed as personification. Personification is used in the following lines of the second stanza:. The use of symbols to signify any object, idea or quality else than its literal meaning, is known as symbolism. Emily has used the following symbols in this poem:. As this poem is about death, the speaker explains the events that happened when she died. In the poem, she explains that the room was calm and peaceful.

The mourners gathered around her and with their dried eyes they awaited her death. The speaker also gave away all of her possessions. She was also ready for her new journey but just then a fly came and interrupted her. I taste a liquor never brewed. It was not Death, for I stood up. Much Madness is divinest Sense -.

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun. Safe in their Alabaster Chambers. Success is counted sweetest. Tell all the truth but tell it slant —. The Brain—is wider than the Sky—. There is no Frigate like a Book. There's a certain Slant of light. The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean. The Soul has bandaged moments. The Soul selects her own Society. They shut me up in Prose —. This is my letter to the world.

Her poetry is instantly recognisable for her idiosyncratic use of dashes in place of other forms of punctuation. She frequently uses the four-line stanza or quatrain , and, unusually for a nineteenth-century poet, utilises pararhyme or half-rhyme as often as full rhyme. The author of this article, Dr Oliver Tearle, is a literary critic and lecturer in English at Loughborough University.

Who are you? I certainly agree with JB about the stumbling nature of flies. The fly, in scale and symbol is the mundane unraveling of sanctity and the counterpoint to all the larger imagery of the soul and the afterlife. Truly expresses the human condition.

Reblogged this on Writing hints and competitions and commented: A bold interpretation of a thought-provoking subject for a poet and us all eventually. It is a poem of outstanding genius from a mind that cuts straight into reality like a sharp knife. To read it sears my soul; the voice is prophetic and is projected down the ages.

Her poems are short and to the point every word counts. You cannot train genius or nurture it , it settles where it will.