The Fly is a poem written by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794. William Blake compares his life and death to that of a fly which he happens to kill unintentionally and finally advises the man to enjoy every day like the fly because no one knows when God will take away our life. The poem has been divided into 5 small stanzas having four lines each. The rhyme scheme is ABCB DEFE. We don’t have any control over our life or death, so thinking about the future and fearing it is something that makes us sad and joyless. Hence we should accept our life, submit to our fate and live as much as we can. In the first stanza, the poet who is sitting outside in summer is thinking about a little fly , whom his thoughtless hand killed. The poet is thus not happy with what he has done. However, his consciousness wakes up after killing the fly. As a Romantic Poet, he is connected to nature. Thus both the summer and the fly have
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