We’ve done four fishbowl discussions in class so they all sort of blend together. But one of the more interesting subjects brought up was the parallels between the lobsters’ and our existences. I thought this was a good thought. How everyone is just trying to live their lives and get ahead. We get so wrapped up in life that we forget about death. I don’t think that is necessarily a bad thing. The poem is defiantly stuffed with meaning, but most people thought it was about death, and how we are all slowly dying but not aware of it.
I think the poem is just making fun of us. We are going to die, but won’t for a long time. However most of us aren’t very self aware. I guess it’s easy to go through life without living it. I don’t like the poem. It’s sort of depressing and although you can get any amount of meaning out of a poem. That doesn’t make the meaning deliberate. That’s what I don’t like about poetry, people can get whatever they want out of a poem, even if it’s not there.
