A Display Of Mackerel Comments

A wonderful write about the price every living thing has to pay...

Different thought line loved reading it

Immersive and meaningful poem embellished with stunning images.

I love how this poem so gently yet purposefully points the reader into the wind of Creations direction of evolving and meaning, the becoming of all things new, and One.

Most deserving poem chosen by Poem Hunter and Team as The Modern Poem Of The Day. TOP Marks! Mark Doty was struck by the elegance of the mackerel in a fish display while shopping. His poem explores individuality, grief, and the mystery of the common good.

Summed up: "A Display of Mackerel" invites us to appreciate the extraordinary within the ordinary, question the value of individuality, and consider the immortality found in uniformity. TFS

While unique individuals are "unduplicatable" and ultimately "doomed, " the fish gain eternal existence as part of the indistinguishable mass. Sacrificing individuality allows the fish to be part of a timeless whole.

TRULY THE LAST ONE (4) : challenging the preference for individuality over collective beauty. The Immortality in Uniformity: The narrator contrasts individuality with the eternal beauty of the fish.

THE LAST ONE (2) : Rather than each individual fish having a soul, the fish together become expressions of one divine soul. The identical fish possess a unique splendor,

THE AST BUT NOT THE LEAST: Congrats first for being selected as The Modern Poem Of The day. Most deserving! 5 *****

The shimmering iridescence of the fish startles the narrator into a philosophical reverie on the nature of individuality and collectivity. The Value of Collectivity: The mackerel's sameness leads the narrator to consider that they might have been produced from "heaven's template."

The narrator finds great beauty in an unexpected subject: rows of dead fish (mackerel) . Despite their identical nature, the narrator discovers a note of perfection in this repetition.

Several themes emerge, inviting readers to contemplate deeper meanings. Have a look look at them. The Beauty in the Mundane:

(cont.) About Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist best known for his work My Alexandria......' AND: 'Born: 1953 (age 70 years) , Maryville, TN Spouse: Alexander Hadel (m.2015) , Paul Lisicky (m.2008-2013' bri : ))

I got tire of reading this and did not finish. If this is a well-liked poem, I'd say something's 'fishy'. Read an excerpt about his life next: (cont.)

nothing like a row of clones and look alikes... no individuality no differences... i never realized how each different species of fish looked exactly the same as each other..a flounder looks like another flounder etc..great detail in the writing with a wonderful philosophical view..it begs me to say Holy Mackeral! !

I think Mark Doty's great. An heir to Marianne Moore in his precise use of language and eye for the visual detail. Never bombastic or tedious or pretentious. And no postmodern gibberish. He'll last.

I think Mark Doty's great. An heir to Marianne Moore in his precise use of language and eye for the visual detail. Never bombastic or tedious or pretentious. And no postmodern gibberish. He'll last.