I heard a fly buzz when I died

I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air -
Between the Heaves of Storm -

The Eyes around - had wrung them dry -
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset - when the King
Be witnessed - in the Room -

I willed my Keepsakes - Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable - and then it was
There interposed a Fly -

With Blue - uncertain - stumbling Buzz -
Between the light - and me -
And then the Windows failed - and then
I could not see to see -


Success is counted sweetest

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory!

As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

Emily Dickinson
an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.

SOP (sequence of process)

metaphor
A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object.

simile
a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two objects through some connective word such as like, as, so, than, or a verb such as resembles.

My sister's keeper
A 2009 drama directed by Nick Cassavetes and starring Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, and Alec Baldwin. Based on Jodi Picoult's novel of the same name,[1] My Sister's Keeper was released in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, and the United Kingdom on June 26, 2009.

Western Front
A term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the east and the Allies to the west. A contested armed frontier during a war is called a "front".

Cain and Abel
Two sons of Adam and Eve. Cain is described as a crop farmer and his younger brother Abel as a shepherd. Cain was the first human born and Abel was the first human to die. Cain committed the first murder by killing his brother.

Seth
The third son of Adam and Eve and brother of Cain and Abel, who were the only other of their children mentioned by name. According to Genesis 4:25, Seth was born after the slaying of Abel by Cain, and Eve believed God had appointed him as a replacement for Abel.

The Taming of the Shrew
A comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.

man- : hand

e.g.: manipulate, manual

vocabulary

1.adduce (verb)

    To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

2.splurge (verb)

    To gush, to flow or move in a rush.
        e.g.: The tomato sauce was splurged all over the chips.

3.spendthrift (noun)

    Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

4.menace (verb)

    To make threats against (someone); to intimidate.
        e.g.: to menace a country with war

5.ravenous (adjective)

    Very hungry.

6.tenant (noun)

    One who pays a fee (rent) in return for the use of land, buildings, or other property owned by others.
    One who has possession of any place; a dweller; an occupant.

7.janitor (noun)

    (chiefly US) someone who looks after the maintenance and cleaning of a public building.
    a doorman

8.abominably (adverb)

    In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

9.vexatious (adjective)

    Causing vexation or annoyance; teasing; troublesome.

10.surname (noun)

    The name a person shares with other members of that person's family, distinguished from that person's given name or names; a family name

11.prestige (noun)

    The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
        e.g.: Oxford has a university of very high prestige.

12.cosmopolitan (adjective)

    all-inclusive; affecting the whole world
    (of a place or institution) composed of people from all over the world
    (of a person) at ease in any part of the world
    (biology, ecology) growing in many parts of the world; widely distributed

13.sophisticated (adjective)

    Having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan.
    Elegant, refined.
    Complicated, especially of complex technology.

14.vulgar (adjective)

    Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

15.uncouth (adjective)

    Unfamiliar, strange, foreign.
    Clumsy, awkward.
    Unrefined, crude.

16.stout (adjective)

    large; bulky, thickset; corpulent, fat.

17.acquit (verb)

    To declare or find not guilty; innocent.
    (followed by “of”, formerly by “from”) To set free, release or discharge from an obligation, duty, liability, burden, or from an accusation or charge.
        e.g.: The jury acquitted the prisoner of the charge.

18.deplore (verb)

    To bewail; to weep bitterly over; to feel sorrow for.
        e.g.: I deplore my neighbour for having lost his job.

19.susceptible (adjective)

    likely to be affected by something
        e.g.: He was susceptible to minor ailments.
    easily influenced or tricked; credulous

20.implore (verb)

    To beg urgently or earnestly.
    To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.

21.bewail (verb)

    To wail over; to feel or express deep sorrow for

22.requite (verb)

    To return in kind; To repay; to recompense; to reward.  
    To retaliate.

23.clamor (noun)

    A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation.
    Any loud and continued noise.
    A continued public expression, often of dissatisfaction or discontent; a popular outcry.

24.inhale (verb)

    To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
    To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
    To eat very quickly.
        e.g.: The hungry child inhaled her meal.

25.scarce (adjective)

    Uncommon, rare; difficult to find; insufficient to meet a demand.
    Scantily supplied (with); deficient (in); used with of.