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On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book Annota8ons

1. “Some hand that never meant to thee hurt”:


• Speaker refers to the act of killing the fly
• Could the hand be of the speaker?
• Convincing readers of their innocence
• Death is an inevitable accident; it is supposed to come without the will of anyone
2. “gleam”, “shine”, “lustre”
• Positive diction to do with light
• Image of shimmering, translucent body
• Miracle of nature’s humblest denizen
• God’s creation
• As if angel’s wings
3. “pages pent”:
• plosive sound
• sudden snap of the closing of the book
• Thud, indicating the death of the fly
4. “left”, “fair”, “life”, “half”, “thee”, “thine”:
• fricatives
• soft, papery texture of the wings
• sudden and jarring contrast of these soft sounds with the plosive sound
5. “relics”:
• Metaphor- fly compared to a saintly creature in life
• Remains (bones and body parts) of a holy person or saint
• Religious connotations
6. “fair monument”:
• grandiose
• posterity or act of remembrance
7. “: Our doom is ever near”:
• turn or volta with a colon (:)
• The perspective shifts from the fly to human beings in general
• All living creatures, humans and insects alike, face death
8. “doom”, “peril” and “death”
• The diction changes from light to ominous
9. “day by day”:
• death is seen stalking like a hunter
• iambic pentameter reinforces the advent of death with a da-DUM rhythm
10. “The book will close upon us”
• Metaphor for death
• Our stories will be over eventually
• No hope for escaping death
11. Closing couplet
• Suddenness of death
• Fear of death before creating a legacy

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