Imagine the different emotions that you would experience when lying on your death bed, as your life flashes before your eyes. There may be feelings of guilt, remorse, regret, contentment, or perhaps the feeling of being alone. In poem 465, the speaker describes her feelings toward the life she has led through emotional imagery and metaphors as she finds herself confronted with death. The “stumbling buzz” (13) of a minute fly, is an image that symbolizes the speaker’s world collapsing around her. Often times, family and loved ones are ....