Prepare For Landing Comments

I think Lamont possibly misjudged the poem in that it seems to me as if the narrator of this poems knows that his attitude to the fisherman is wrong and that’s kind of the purpose of the poem, about the dehumanising aspect of certain things in modern life, careers, work, stepping on and off planes, and I felt the title itself was a symbol of that automation.

maybe the 'I' here is fictional, and telling whats down below..?

Nice poem Mike, however, it smacks of arrogance a tad, IMHO. I call it PA. 'Poets Arrogance'. I've been guilty of it too...to think that no one else is musing or engaged in deep reflection but the poet. Why wouldnt the fisherman been writing his memoirs? He could've been busy at knocking out his own 'Angela's Ashes'. Who is to know? I think the poem would've been deeper by leaving what the fisherman was doing open to interpretation, instead of dismissing him as a galoot with nothing on his mind but the next catch. The suggestion that he may have been a writer was nice, but then you, haughtily, blew it out of the water with a 'fat chance'. An abstract ending would've given the little portrait that touch of mystery. Remember, Hemingway did his share of fishing too, and might've looked like just another lug on a boat from someone flying above him.