The Fly by William Blake Summary
The poem
"The Fly" composed by William Blake is about the speaker's apologies (क्षमा याचना) about his careless act of killing a
fly (झीङ्गा) mercilessly (निर्दयतापूर्वक).
Once the
speaker was sitting outside in summer. A fly came enjoying the warm weather.
The speaker felt annoyed (रिसाउनु) of the fly. Without giving a second
thought the speaker happened to kill the fly at once. Then the speaker repented
(प्रायश्चित्त गर्नु) for what he did. He, then, started
thinking the fly's death from different angle. He compared himself with the
fly. He found different similarities between the fly and human beings. The way
death has just taken the life of the fly away suddenly, it occurs to the man
too an unknown date i. e. all of a sudden.
Every human
being, like the fly, enjoys their life by drinking, dancing, and singing until
death comes.
The speaker
made some distinction (अन्तर) with regard to thought process
between fly and human beings. He said that man could enjoy their life like
flies if he/she stopped worrying about inevitable (निश्चित) death. To leave a carefree (चिन्ता मुक्त) life a man should stop reasoning and using conscience (विवेक). The poem ends with a message that if human beings need
liberation (मुक्ति), his/her thoughts must die.