 | Carl Sagan - 1997 - 452 sidor
...City, NY (1981) CHAPTER 1 Transcendental Numbers Little fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not them A man like me? For I dance And drink and sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. — WILLIAM... | |
 | John McRae - 1998 - 172 sidor
...Activity Text: Poem (xiii) (xiii) Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. 5 Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance, 10 And drink, & sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath,... | |
 | 1999 - 324 sidor
...(earthworm) storm The Fly William Blake Little 4y Thy summers play, My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? : ГЯШЮ№ ! J (thoughtless)SSW В fô (blind) JE For I dance And drink &L sing; Till some blind... | |
 | Nina Witoszek, Andrew Brennan - 1999 - 518 sidor
...William Wordsworth, William Blake, come to mind. Blake asserted that every thing that lives is holy: Am not I A fly like thee Or art not thou A man like me? It has been rather common in English literature to stress the moral duties of man towards "the Brute... | |
 | Kathleen Lundeen - 2000 - 192 sidor
...the second verse, Blake shows by way of mirroring questions the relative status of literal language: Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? The parallel syntax reinforces the sense that subject and object should be interchangeable. Thus, either... | |
 | John Strachan - 2001 - 212 sidor
...Fly' uses simple monosyllables and over' running lines to convey an air of delicacy and simplicity: Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like...and sing: Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. Such adept handling eradicates the sense sometimes evident in the dimeter of a more expansive form... | |
 | Frances Mayes - 2001 - 548 sidor
...meter. THE FLY (William Blake, 1757-1827) Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me? For I dance, And drink, & sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength & breath, And the... | |
 | Kevin Davies - 2001 - 321 sidor
...truths about human biology, it is the lines of Johnson s contemporary, William Blake, that come to mind: "Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me?" IN STARK CONTRAST to the harmonious collaboration between academia and Celera on the Drosophila genome,... | |
 | William Blake - 2002 - 310 sidor
...dark secret love Does thy life destroy. THE FLY Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not...thought is life And strength and breath, And the want 72 THE TIGER Then am I A happy fly. If I live, Or if I die. THE ANGEL I dreamt a dream! What can it... | |
 | Rod Preece - 2002 - 436 sidor
...stresses the unity of life in "The Fly." Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance And drink & sing. Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. If thought is life And strength and breath, And the... | |
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THE FLY LITTLE Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brush'd away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me ? For I dance And drink & sing, Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing. 
