Flies, as most people know, are an annoyance. They feast on dead flesh, which is what the speaker will soon be. The presence of the fly is a harsh reminder of the fate of the dead (“I Heard a Fly Buzz—When I Died—”139). Romanticism is defined as emotional and written works include emotional intensity. In this poem, Emily Dickinson creates just that in lines five and six, “The Eyes around—had wrung them dry— / And Breaths were gathering firm” (Dickinson 5-6).
At the beginning of the scene in the short story, we read about Nat having forgotten about something important. He then realises that the fire in the fireplace “was smouldering out”. This incident leads the birds down through the chimney into Nat’s house. DuMaurier uses olfactory imagery when Nat’s wife wakes up and tells Nat that she smells dead birds. As the passage goes on, we read about the singed feathers left behind by the birds, which adds more horror to the passage.
“The Fox” by Kenneth Patchen explores the idea of Death through the story of a pregnant fox that is shot by a hunter. Like “The Fly”, the necessity and tragedy of death is another theme. In contrast to the death of an unsuspecting fly, the death of an animal carrying young is considered tragic. The fox is killed before she has a chance to bring life into the world, evoking sympathy in the reader. The atmosphere of the “The Fox” is far sadder than that of “The Fly” because the author expresses more emotion rather than the analytical standpoint
Max gets so exhausted that he collapses and Mrs.Crumlin stuffs a poison muffin into his mouth. He accidently swallowed some. His mind goes completely blank and he is dragged back to his front yard. His loyal pet owl swoops down with the InjectaPort and stabs it right into Mrs.Crumlins arm. She falls on the ground and that was the end of her.
Ironically, Smurch survived his plane trip around the world. Even then, the authorities were hoping he would drown. Even his mother hpoed he would drown: His mother, a sullen shortorder cook in a shack restaurant on the edge of a tourists' camping ground near Westfield, met all inquiries as to her son with an angry, "Ah, the hell with him; I hope he drowns." Smurch was a terrible person with terrible manners and a crude disposition. After the great leaders, including the President of the United States, tried to teach Smurch the correct manners for an interview, Smurch just mocked them and insisted on getting money for his great feat.
The baby is a symbol of his parents' marriage and the last hopes of it staying together are the baby's lungs. Finally, he reaches inside and rips out the lungs killing the baby, or marriage, and shook them for the flies. The flies representing death, the way they come and fly around something dead. The metaphor of the stanza is that there is always something in life that you don't want to give up on or ever let it go, but there is a point in life when it is time to give it up. Not only did Strand
In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, death is a reoccurring factor. Hamlet, who has recently faced the death of his father, is stricken with grief as he does not understand exactly what death is. Elizabethans all believed in the afterlife. Everyone strongly believed in ghosts, God, witches, and eventually ending up in either heaven or hell. Due to these beliefs and the complexity of Hamlet’s character, it is inevitable that his thoughts of death would wander outside the lines of his religion.
Her poems on death, though, almost go beyond time. Dickinson’s two poems, “Because I could not stop for Death-“and “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-”, are both about one of mankind’s biggest fears, death. The thought of death terrifies us. It is almost as if death is lurking right around the corner to jump out and get you like Michael Myers does in the movie Halloween. It is a negative event in life and something to be dreaded, mainly because it is an unknown.
Which you also can see in the last part of the story: ‘…My teeth chattered... I escaped’. Victor had a scary dream about his mom and his girlfriend, Elizabeth, and about death. In his dream, he meets Elizabeth, which ‘lips became livid with the hue of death’ when he kissed them. He sees his dead mothers shroud and he sees grave-worms crawling.
Despite Sylvia Plath’s long, drawn out, detailed poetry, her poems revolve around a central message. Plath’s dark personality helped to shape her poetry. The use of figurative language, recurring images, and poetic elements of poetry allow active participation from the reader. The common theme throughout her poetry may not become evident until the poem is done being read. Plath is able to strongly convey a central theme of suicide by relief of pain, and the result of abandonment and inactivity.