SOURCE: “Dickinson's ‘I heard a Fly buzz,’” in The Explicator, Vol. 43, No. 3, Spring, 1985, pp. 12-15.
In the following essay, Bachinger presents a reading of Dickinson's “I heard a Fly Buzz” as a response to John Donne's Sermon 78—in which she equates the fly with God.
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