Lobster Discussion!

I really enjoyed the Lobster discussion because I love reading a book or poem and taking about it to see how everyone thought of it. The point that came up during the discussion that really surprised was the topic of death. Because the first couple of times I read through the poem, I didn't think that the lobsters where actually dyeing. I guess I hate death so when I read about death I just don’t put two and two together. So I was really surprised when people said that the first time they read through the poem they thought it was gory and all about death because I took the poem in a total different way. I am not trying to pick the obvious idea; it is just what I really was surprised with!

My new thoughts about the poem is that the author wanted the reader to see both sides of the lobsters life, that they hare taken out of their environment and throw into a tank to die but they also have no idea what their fate is. So there is good and bad in the life of a lobster. And after the discussion I see everyone's perspectives. And without the discussion I would still be in my own little thinking box and not knowing the whole meaning of this complex but simple poem.