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The use of the exclamatory “Oh!” reinforces the speaker’s awe. He wishes the human memories we leave behind when we die “were half as lovely as these wings” of the fly. The use of the word “relics” to describe the wings of the fly ties in with “monument”; both words elevate the fly to something extraordinary and precious...
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On one level the poem is a statement against traditional notions of what is “beautiful”, simply for its celebration of what wouldn’t usually be considered a thing of beauty. The title’s similarity to Keats’ ‘On Reading Chapman’s Homer’ renders the mundane subject of a dead fly extraordinary...
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