"The Death of Somebody of No Importance."
             To examine the poem in isolation, first take a look at the structure of the poem itself. As is often Emily Dickinson's habit, the poem is constructed in a few stanzas arranged in the quadruplet. The first stanza has an identifiable AB AB rhyme scheme, which falls away in the second and third stanzas, while the poem concludes itself with lines 14 and 16 rhyming, while 13 and 15 do not. Emily Dickinson does not seem to place the form of her poems, at least not in terms of rhyme scheme as her foremost concern, which in turn lends to her own brand of consistency, and separates her from many of her contemporary poets which were still producing Patrician and Iberian sonnet poetry, with the general rhyme scheme of iambic pentameter. The over-all situation and or idea of the poem is easily grasp from the first line "I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –" (1) in which we are hit immediately with the imagery of death, attacked by two blatant symbols, the "Fly" and the word "died", meaning death. The Emily Dickinson is attempting to draw our attentions to the last notable perception other then the "The Stillness in the Room" (2) by the use of the powerfully contrasting word "buzz" (1.) the conclusion of the first stanza "Between the Heaves of Storm" (4) sets up the over all religious, spiritual, and personal metaphor by invoking images of "Stillness in the Air" (3) and the "Heaves of Storm" (4.) Emily Dickinson is in a very certain sense, comparing the buzzing of the fly and the otherwise depressing stillness of her death chamber, with the silence that come intermitly between the lightening and thunder of a storm. The over all tone of the poem is that of gloom and despair for in the first stanza we began with images of death and the last stanza concludes with such negative word as "uncertai...