Okay, here is a second post on poems about small winged pests, written in honor of President Obama’s cool and cold-blooded killing of a fly. When I was a child, I used to enjoy the poem about “the funny old lady who swallowed a fly.” It is one of those repetition poems, with a new […]
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Emily Dickinson’s Deathbed Fly
Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged death and dying, Emily Dickinson, Gulliver's Travels, Hansel and Gretel, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Lord of the Flies, The Flea, There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly, William Golding | Comments closed
