Question

Which THREE lines in this excerpt from Emily Dickinson's poem "Dying" paint an unromantic picture of death?


I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me!
Could make assignable, -and then
There interposed to come between things a fly,
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me

Answer 1

There interposed to come between things a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,

Between the light and me;

Answer 2

Answer:

There interposed to come between things a fly,

With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,

Between the light and me

Explanation:

These lines picture an unromantic idea of love since the poetess is referring to the fact the body gets putrified. What is it that will turn up between life and death? A fly. These appear when the body is getting putrified , so the fly from the poem seems to be the element that indicates the boundary between life and death. Besides, this fly is described  in detail. It is blue and it buzzes . The fly moves above the corpse as if it were exploring it : uncertain , stumbling... It flies between the outside world - the light- and the poetess' dead body.