Emily Dickinson was a very thoughtful and distinguished poet who wrote many great works of poetry. Most of his poems make use of unique combinations of capitalization and punctuation to introduce metaphors. These metaphors also have a literal meaning. To use these metaphors, Dickinson normally places her poems in first-person perspective, giving the impression that the poem is given to you by the speaker rather than by itself. “I heard the buzz of a fly---when I died---” is a great example of this use of first-person perspective metaphor to describe a person's final thoughts at the end of their life. At the opening of the poem, the speaker is introduced, a person who is reflecting on his last thoughts as death approaches. In line 1, the speaker hears the buzz of a fly, or rather, the words of some unwanted guest in the room. This person who shouldn't be there is the only one making sounds in an otherwise silent room. Lines 2 and 3 illustrate this with the rest of the family waiting quietly, and then the rest of the world simply apathetic towards the plight of the...