About this Poem: In the Poem “The Fly” Blake is connecting humanity with all of nature. In the beginning of the poem Blake has just killed a fly and is feeling remorse. He is taking an in-depth look at how a simple fly, to most people can just be brushed away with a hand but realizes that there are some simple similarties between him and the fly. They are both living breathing creatures. He is saying that each human, animal, and even insect exist together in the same world and therefore have a right to life.
The Fly
William Blake
Little Fly
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brush’d away
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance
And drink & sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If though is life
And strength & breath,
And the want
Of thought is death;
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
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