Lobsters

          In the discussion that I took place I didn't say anything, but I had a question. My question was; Why does Howard Nemerov compare the lobster to both happy things and depressing thing that make the lobsters seem ugly? An example of a  more happy thing is " the beauty of strangeness marks"

          When I was listening to the discussion one thing that changed the way I thought  about the poem was "The flame beneath the pot that boils the water." When I first read the poem I thought of it more of the circle of life. Now that we had the discussion think of it more as the people that are buying and eating the Lobsters. I know that different people interpret the poem different ways. But I think Nemerov is trying to show that the lobsters are innocent and the people that buying them and eating them are big bullies.