I Heard a fly buzz – when I died (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards
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Poet of 'I Heard a Fly Buzz'
Poet of 'I Heard a Fly Buzz'
Emily Dickinson
Sound interrupting the death scene
Sound interrupting the death scene
A fly buzzing
What 'King' symbolises
What 'King' symbolises
God or death
Stillness likened to
Stillness likened to
Calm between heaves of storm
Failed 'Windows' symbolise
Failed 'Windows' symbolise
Eyes closing/vision fading in death
Main theme regarding death & fly
Main theme regarding death & fly
Mundanity & inevitability of death
What the fly's buzz disrupts
What the fly's buzz disrupts
Expected solemnity of death
Dickinson's key punctuation device
Dickinson's key punctuation device
Dashes (create pauses & fragmentation)
Poem structure (stanza type)
Poem structure (stanza type)
Quatrains with ABCB rhyme scheme
3 adjectives for fly's buzz
3 adjectives for fly's buzz
Blue, uncertain, stumbling
Mourners' eyes 'had ___ them dry'
Mourners' eyes 'had ___ them dry'
wrung
Speaker's action in stanza 3
Speaker's action in stanza 3
Wills keepsakes, signs away possessions
Final line: 'I could not ___ to ___'
Final line: 'I could not ___ to ___'
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