2. What changes the mood? - The fly buzzing into the room with movement and color changes the mood of stillness and stagnation.
3. What effect does the poet achieve by repeating the s and z sounds in I. 13? - By repeating s and z sounds seems to enhance the image of a fly buzzing.
4. How could the final line be paraphrased to denote the two senses in which the speaker is using the word see? - He uses the word see to describe sight but also to undertand.
5. According to the second and third stanzas, how had the speaker and those around her prepared for death? - The people gathered to see him and he got in his bed and signed a will
6. What are the dying person and those around her expecting to find in the room? What appears instead and why is this ironic? - The people are expecting to find a Jesus or the king. Instead a fly appears which is insignificant.
7. How does the poet use pauses and specific words in lines 12-13 to make the appearance of the fly dramatic and lively? - Suggests drama. It stumbles which shows that it is alive and active.
8. What tone do you hear in this poem? What feeling do you think the poet expresses by inserting the fly into this deathbed scene? - There is a tone of anticipation and calm. By inserting the fly into the deathbed scene it adds humor to the tone.