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The fly and 465
Title: The fly and 465
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 973 | Pages: 4.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The fly and 465
Geoff
Eng 219
3/4/00
The Fly and #465
Emily Dickinson in her poem #465, covers the subject of death in a way that I have not seen before. She delves right into the last sounds she heard when the narrator died, which was a fly buzzing. The last actions of this world are concluded by the assigning
of "keepsakes", the last few tears while waiting "the King". And now, in the midst of this silence, Emily chooses to introduce …showed first 75 words of 973 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 973 total…kept the ending open so as not to alienate her readers. The fact that much of the poem's power comes from such an open ending is, I believe, almost incidental. The whole point about the next life is that we do not know and cannot know what it is like or even if it exists. And that's what makes life so interesting. Think how boring it would be if we actually knew all the answers!
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