The Fly Flashcards
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About
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- Poem’s speaker thoughtlessly swats a fly, then comforts himself by pondering that his and the flys life are the same, both are short and end in nothingness, so might as well have fun. Ironic poem, speakers view on life and death simplistic
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Summary
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- fly, ive ended your summer life, unthinkingly killing your life.
- Arent i just a fly like you, arent you a man just like me
- After all, ill dance, drink and sing until some unseeing hand wipes my life away
- If thought is born from a living body
- if death is the absense on though
- then ill be a fly whether alive or dead
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Death, mortality and pleasure
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- Fly represents briefness of life, unpredictability of death,
- People should enjoy life
- Symbolically fly, same role as other art works
- Poems author likely does not agree. Speaker shortsighted
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A fly like thee?
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-Rhetorical question, Writer does not agree
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Mystery and wonder of existence
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- Materialistic outlook,
- Poems language hints, mysteries to big to be wrapped up in this speakers package
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‘some blind hand’
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- death arbitary, meaningless.
- not curious about some blind hand
- unthinkable, uncaring
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‘if thought is life’
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- Biological process, like digestions, respiration,
- Thought creates life, sentence structure
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