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"I Heard a Fly Buzz- when i died" by Emily Dickinson, is a poem written with many vivid descriptions. One of these clear images was the ninth line which read, "I willed my keepsakes, signed away". I interpreted this phrase that Emily wrote, to say that the person in this poem is dying and writing their will. When coming across this line, I stumbled across the word keepsakes. After I looked it up in my dictionary I realized that keepsakes are small presents that one gives you so that you will not forget them. Once I cleared away that confusion, the meaning of this phrase became clear to me. Emily Dickinson was writing a poem about a man who is about to die. Before you die, you read over your will. "I willed my keepsakes", is saying that this person has given away their small gifts to people who they don't to forget about their presence. The second half of this phrase says, "signed away". This is describing that the person who the poem is talking about, has signed away their will and is ready to die. At first, "I willed my keepsakes, signed away," did not make much sense to me, but now that I have analyze it, I have realized its true meaning.