Please analyze the poem "I heard a Fly buzz--when I died" by Emily Dickinson.

This excellent poem by Emily Dickinson represents another
of her poems focusing on the topic of death. However, in this poem, unlike others that
present death in a momentous or terrifying way, death is presented ironically, as the
speaker describes her own death as others wait for death to come to her. She is giving
away her last possessions when a fly moves itself to block her sight, and death claims
her.

There is an intense irony between the expectations of
those with the speaker, awaiting her death, and the way that death actually arrives.
Note how the second stanza presents the expectation of those
around:

The
Eyes around--had wrung them dry--

And Breaths were
gathering firm

For that last Onset--when the
King

Be witnessed--in the
Room--

Death is imagined to
be this wonderful revelation of God, the "King" in the room itself as he comes to claim
the soul of the speaker. Note the way that expectations are raised with the "Breaths" of
the audience being described as "gathering firm" in eager anticipation for what is
described as the "Onset." How ironic, then, that instead of a miraculous divine
appearance, the last sight of the speaker is a fly--an insect that is associated with
decomposing flesh--that blocks the light from the window. The move from the solemn tone
that is created in the first two stanzas to the rather ironic mood of the final stanza
reflects the way that Dickinson is poking fun at the supposed portentousness of death.
The sheer ordinary nature of the speaker's death stands in contrast to the way that so
many people expect the deathbed scene to be fraught with horror or divine
revelation.