The Fly
This poem is by William Blake on the mortality of living being divided into five
stanzas. This poem deals with a simple theme of how a human beings without
ill intentions kills a fly and regrets it later on through
this poem William Blake want to justify that every living being equal in the
eyes of God.
Each stanza is divided into four
lines and in the first stanza, the poet puts forward an argument that the protagonist Fly with the brush of his hand.
It was extremely thoughtless as an action but the poet shows the feeling of regret in the
following stanza. The second stanza shows the comparison between the Fly and
poet himself. There are two questions asked by the poet in this stanza wherein
the poet calls himself as good as a fly and regret the act committed by him.
The following stanza , poet gets a
philosophical touch by saying that all
his enjoyments of drinking, dancing and singing would come to an end any day as
the God’s hand would brush away his life in no time and it would be the same
act that he committed by killing a fly. In the next stanza he talks about the
thought process of human beings to how live and die along with the thought process
that they carry the thought ends with
the end of anybody’s life.
In the final stanza, the poet ends by
saying that he is as good as a fly
irrespective of whether he lives or dies . Blake through this poem want us to
believe that everything from the smallest creature to largest everybody is equal in the eyes of God
and that the brush of morality could come one anybody anytime.
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