G. S. Morris, from North Carolina State University, wrote an article “Blake’s THE FLY.” The article is an annotation of the poem “The Fly" by William Blake. The author opinions and criticism on the poem shows more deeper meaning and understanding of William Blake’s work. Throughout the article, G.S Morris mostly focuses on comparing the three stanzas in the beginning and the two last stanzas of the poem and showing connection between the stanzas. In stanza one through three, G.S Morris explains the human as a first person speaker and the fly as a second speaker in stanza four and five. His quote “The first three stanzas certainly issue from one speaker, as they follow logically and sentimentally” and “...the second speaker could be the fly itself" shows his interpretation of the speakers in the poem. He believed the human regrets what he has done to the fly, which was killing it with his hand. G.S Morris quoted, “The fly surreptitiously points out the first speaker's hypocrisy; in his self-regard the first speaker sees his injury to the fly only as an opportunity for self-reflection. His reflection offers no consolation to the fly, no sympathy, but only an abstract comparison and speculation; so the fly, in turn, replies with still more abstract speculation.” In this quote, G.S Morris wants the reader to know that humans are more concern about themselves instead of others. His opinion is quite similar to what Blake wants the reader to know; to have sympathy for others instead of worrying about the situations that is occurring. We tend to isolate ourselves with thoughts and reflection, from there we forget the things that are happening right in front of us.This reflects the interpretation on my blog because we want the readers to know more about William Blake’s opinion on life itself. His inspiration is outstanding and difficult to understand without knowing the true meaning of his poems and artwork. G.S Morris has done a very great job at showing the fly as our own personal thoughts.
In my opinion, the author’s idea of the fly speaking to the human showing his hypocrisy and his self reflection is close to what Blake wants the reader to know. I believe Blake made the fly die in the beginning of stanza one to show how death comes upon us instantly. Stanza two and three describes the feeling of the human felt towards the fly after he killed it, which was sorrow. The sorrow of the human to the fly symbolizes people showing sympathy for their love ones only because they are now dead. The answer lies in stanza four and five when Blake describes in his poem, “If thought is life And strength & breath And the want Of thought is death; Then am I A happy fly. If 1 live. Or if I die." To explain the theme of the poem, I will bring in a situation that happened to me. When I was ten years old, I was scared of death. These situations made it worse: seeing my grandpa died in the hospital, death on the streets because of car accidents, and hearing gun shots at night. I remembered every night, my parents will read the Bible to my brothers and I, explaining to us when they die, they will be happy in Heaven with God because God is everything they need. I grew up, learning that death is a part of life and one day I will die as well and be in Heaven with God. The interpretation of G.S Morris and mine shows what William Blake wanted to explain if he was alive today. People in this world are always thinking of death and are worrying about the things that are going to happened to them afterlife, what will happen after living in the world. Instead of worrying about ourselves, we should focus more on spending time with our family and the people who care for us. Learning more about William Blake’s poem and art opens up more opportunity to experience the beauty of Nature and how we, as humans need to work together and make this world a better place as what Blake visioned. The article of G.S Morris “ Blake’s THE FLY" is located in Mount Hood Community College Library below this post.
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