Page 187 - 100 Best Loved Poems - Teaching Unit
P. 187
“I heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”
by Emily Dickinson, page 70
Vocabulary
heaves – coughs
interposed – interrupted
assignable – selected, set apart
1. What is the setting of the poem?
2. What is the metrical scheme of the poem?
3. The first stanza of the poem compares the speaker’s room to a storm using what literary
device?
4. To what is Dickinson referring to when she writes of “the king” on line seven?
5. In your own words, describe what role the fly plays in the speaker’s death.
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