Part one of term paper
This poem is about life. The question this poem poses is "What is Life?" In order to find the answer, according to Blake, one must consider Nature and Thought. The poem itself is filled with emotion and leaves the reader thinking at the end as to what the poem is about, a true romantic fragment. Also, this poem was in Blake's "Songs of Ex ...

Part two of term paper
... asks "What are we?" If we are no better or worse then the fly then we are equal to the fly. If that is the case then life is terrible for a fly is a small and meager creature. Blake is suggested that we are so useless and so petty that we are like flies. This view upon humans is one of disgust and is very depressing for the reader. Blake also says that men are similar to the fly due to their position in life. "For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing." M ...