In the discussion that was held in class on the poem "Lobsters", there were many ideas introduced that I had never previously thought of. One such idea is that the lobsters described in the poem are being compared to humans. The color of their shell is described as a dead person green instead of just plain green, or bruise purple instead of just purple. Also, the last line compares the human curiosity of what unknown object lies beneath the earth to the pot that boils the lobsters. When I think of lobsters, the first thing that comes to mind is food...not human beings.
When this is idea was introduced to my mind, I began to run away with it. I thought about the poem in a new light, and consequently came up with an individual idea about the poem. I started thinking that some of the actions in the poem could be compared to our government. How the government will take people out of their environment and place them in one that is nothing like what they are used to. They would do this just for their own, selfish purposes. For example, when they moved the Native Americans off their own land and into a polar opposite piece of land just so that more room could be used for settlers. This idea I got from a poem about lobsters...what a crazy world, poetry is.
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