The Fly

                                                              The Fly

                                                                                By – William Blake

         This poem is supposed to be William Blake take on the mortality of living being divided into five stanzas. This poem deals with a simple theme of how a humanbeing without ill intention kills a fly and regrets it latter on through this poem. William Blake wants to justify that every living being is equal in the eyes of God.

           Each stanzas is divided into four lines and in the first stanza the puts foreword on argument that the protagonist of poem unintentionally kills the fly with the brush of his hand. It was extremely thoughtless as and action but the poet shows the feeling of regret in the following stanza.

          The second stanza shows the comparison between the fly and the poet himself. There are two questions asked by the poet in this stanza where in the poet calls himself, as good as a fly and regrets the act committed by him.

         In the following stanza the poet gets a touch philosophical 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 that they carry. The thought ends with the end of any body'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 five stanza wan't as to believed that everybody from the smallest creature to the largest everybody is equal in the eyes of God and that the brush of morality could come on anybody anytime.