Poetry offers prime examples of how tradition and dissent coexist.

Poetry can present traditional images and dissent can also coexist at the same time as in the three poems about flies of Donne, Blake and Holub.

The speaker in "The Flea" by John Donne (1572-1631), is trying to seduce and surprise his mistress at the same time as the same flea has bitten both of them which tells that both of their bloods are mixed in the body of the flea and its blood joins both their bloods. This tells that such metaphor can give a hint of offering prime example for tradition of mixing the souls of two lovers but at the same time this bears dissent that coexists in the poem's silliness by giving an example of Holy Trinity inside a flea's body. The poem can also be regarded as being both vulgar and elegant and it is displaying both erudition and wit in a way for a mistress's seduction which may not be accepted through such metaphor. The Fly” by William Blake (1757-1827) is another example of how poetry offers examples of how dissent and tradition can coexist as Blake in this poem is presenting an image of a toddler and a nurse among the trees' branches and the girl who has the racket is going to hit the shuttlecock that exists in the background and the nurse as suffering of the fly from the perplexed environment it lives in reflects on the narrator's life who is suffering too. This simile may be seen logical as the narrator could find thoughts that can help in meeting a conclusion but at the same time the poet can be regarded as only describing the animal lives versus human lives in a simple way that may not lead to real thoughts. The poet also repeats words in a figurative language that can make the poem very simple to the extent that its idea becomes not accepted. The Fly” by Miroslav Holub (192-1998) lacks specific traditional English rhyme scheme and the lengths of the lines are even different and his poem seems to be very scientific and going far in describing how flies live and the battles they go into. The free verse the poem has made it modern although the age it was written in is traditional and dissent can be regarded clearly in its content as war glory is not focused on but the poet has focused on the differences between the lives of animals and that of human-beings.

In conclusion, the poets in the three poems are trying to make something that is not traditional through presenting different ideas and some of them presented this traditionally while others couldn't but they all made their poems to be dissent in the existence of some tradition which something that poetry can really offer.