There interposed a Fly - With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz - Between the light - and me -
In the lines highlighted, I believe Dickinson is using a metaphor where she is the fly after death. Leaving her body behind while entering an afterlife.
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- May 2024
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Was like the Stillness in the Air - Between the Heaves of Storm -
These two lines give the reader a sense of how Dickinson may have been feeling. Implying the calm before the storm. A bit of eeriness, but a sense she maybe okay with death creeping up on her.
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