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In the poem The Fly, much vivid imagery is employed in creating a graphic depiction of the housefly as the filthy, disease ridden scourge of man that it is. The author, having obviously spent a great deal of time observing and noting the characteristics of the h ....

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.... is to follow. The lines that follow describe a creature that is lowly and parasitic, yet well suited to the world it lives in and feeds off of. The second stanza depicts the fly flying as a minute messenger of filth and disease. It is described landing on the heap of dung, then contaminating all that is clean with its filth and decay. Its hungry burrowing and laying of maggots in a dead body is described, as is its perpetual shyness from its adversary, man. In the third section, the fly's close interaction with those that would destroy it is discussed. The horse is shown as being its mortal enemy, sweeping it with what the fly sees as the h ....