Analysis Of The Poem: The Fly
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In the poem The Fly, much vivid imagery is employed in creating a
graphic depiction of the housefly as the filthy, disease ridden scourge of
man that it is. The author, having obviously spent a great deal of time
observing and noting the characteristics of the housefly, creates a vivid
summation ....
Middle of paper
.... snot," immediately introduces the
atmosphere of what is to follow. The lines that follow describe a creature
that is lowly and parasitic, yet well suited to the world it lives in and
feeds off of.
The second stanza depicts the fly flying as a minute messenger of filth
and disease. It is described landing on the heap of dung, then
contaminating all that is clean with its filth and decay. Its hungry
burrowing and laying of maggots in a dead body is described, as is its
perpetual shyness from ....
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