【正文】 ght: Implied and explicit images of darkness and light occur throughout the poem.Poe’s Artistic theoriesPoems should be short, concise and readable at one sitting。The aim of poem writing is beauty。 the most beautiful thing described by a poem is the death of a beautiful woman。 the desirable tone of a poem is melancholy。He opposed didactic poems。He stressed the form of poem, especially the beautiful and neat rhyme.His View and Theme 1) He concludes that “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world”.2) Melancholy is the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.3) He was interested in imagination and fancy as well as deduction and induction. First StanzaNotice the recurrence of m and n sounds (alliteration). Second StanzaCoveted: envied, resented Third Stanzathis was the reason: the seraphs39。 envy long ago: these words echo many a year ago in Line 1, Stanza 1. a cloud: Using these words instead of the sky infuses foreboding and gloom while symbolizing the dark envy of the seraphs. selpulchre: British spelling of sepulcher. Britain, of course, has always had a monarchy, the type of government that would rule in a kingdom by the sea Fourth stanzaout of a cloud by night: Use of this phrase emphasizes the dark envy of the angels and their sneaky scheme (which unfolds under the cover of night). chilling and killing: an example of internal rhyme Fifth StanzaThe narrator here focuses on three worlds: (1) earth, the realm of humans。 (2) heaven, the realm of angels。 and (3) hell, the realm of demons. The love between him and Annabel is stronger than any other earthly love and can survive the sinister efforts of the angels and the demons to sabotage蓄意破壞 it. ever, dissever: internal rhyme Sixth StanzaPoe stresses imagery of light in this stanza, associating moonbeams with dreams about his beloved and the radiance of stars with her eyes. In the sixth line, he uses a figure of speech called anaphora首語重復(fù)法 when he writes the word my four times. I heard a fly buzzwhen I diedThe poems include observations of nature, accounts of a moment’s revelation, descriptions of sexual stirrings, and meditations on the nature of life and death. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles. And her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness. is told by a narrator who uses past tense to describe the final moments of their life. The poem gives the reader an inside look into the final moments of death from someone who has already died. The fly is the central figure representing the oning of death. The poem is full of many metaphors and similes, such as the king mentioned in the poem who represents a belief in religion. The wording of the poem affirms Emily Dickinson39。s belief in life after death. The poem has a short title but is deep in meaning. Death is inevitable to all who are born, although not all deaths are disturbed by a pesky fly.“I heard a Fly buzz” employs all of Dickinson’s formal patterns: trimeter and tetrameter iambic lines (four stresses in the first and third lines of each stanza, three in the second and fourth, a pattern Dickinson follows at her most formal)。 rhythmic insertion of the long dash to interrupt the meter。 and an ABCB rhyme scheme. Interestingly, all the rhymes before the final stanza are halfrhymes (Room/Storm, firm/Room, be/Fly), while only the rhyme in the final stanza is a full rhyme (me/see). Dickinson uses this technique to build tension。 a sense of true pletion es only with the speaker’s death.