Poem Analysis on Lobsters by Nemero

Lobsters Are lobsters similar to man? In Howard Nemerov’s poem Lobsters, there is a contrast made between the lives of lobsters to the lives of mankind. The speaker uses certain images to set up the reader for the implicit meaning of the poem. The meaning is found at the end of the poem and could be summarized: “There is something cruel underneath the world and eventually over time will bring mankind to its death.” …showed first 75 words of 532 total…

…showed last 75 words of 532 total…pause over these slow, gigantic spiders that spin not. Thinking, There’s something underneath the world. The flame beneath the pot that boils the water.” As humans we’re capable to freely control the lobsters; is there a higher being that may control us? Just as the flame beneath the pot killed off the lobsters, the author gets the reader to wonder; what is the flame that will destroy mankind over a period of time?