'The Fly' by William Black

      ‘The Fly’ is a lyrical poem. It is written by William Black. William Black is one of precursors of Romanticism. All these precursors have paved and prepaid the way for the Romantic Age: The Romantic age is flourished by thoughts and emotions of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. It is also woman as in the words of Russoue ‘Return to Nature’. If these precursors have not been these, there might not have “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” in romantic literature.

                      Black is famous for his metaphysical imagery and picturesque elements in poetry. Even today he is best remembering for:

“Tiger tiger

Burning black

In the forest at the night.”

In above mentioned example, Black compares tiger with deep forest. Use of Animal Imagery is one of the common features of the poems of black.

                “The Fly” is an idol of romanticism, hear poet begins with little Fly, this little fly is the symbol of the thought and pleasure of life. The theme of the poem reveals liveliness in men’s life, if we live or die is upside but the life is the subject of breath and death only.

                      “The Fly” has not a creature but representation of human feelings and style of the common men. It is full of ‘summer’s play’ and ‘brushed away’. Life is full of magic like sometimes pain, sometimes pleasure, said, happy, and sometimes crushed and rushed in to the hand of some blind force. In short, the poem tales about the consistency in every good or bad mood of life.

                       The poem is short and solid; it is divided in five stanzas, each stanza carry four lines. The lines are very short but subtle and blended with deeper meaning. The rhyme Scheme is - abab, and the rhyming words are like

Fly - I

Play - away

Thee - me

Sing - wing

Breath - death

Use of Question mark, common and punctuation are the structure fame of the poem. The uneven line and thought is suitable to the content of the poem. The title of the poem is also suggested the murmuring of the fly and the predicament of men’s life.