Mackerel
Jack Handy
Mr. Sharon
English IV, AP
22 February 2006
Mackerel
Mark Doty is standing in the fish section of a Stop n' shop in Orleans, Massachusetts, he is frozen in his path by a display of mackerel, struck numb by the beautiful, gleaming array of fish, the shimmering black bands against the white ice. The dark scales and flat eyes were speaking to him. He is not stopped by their beauty though, because as he once said there is too much beauty in the world to be inspired by beauty alone. No, there was something in their identical-ness that caught him.
Doty began this poem with ram imagery, putting the picture he had glued in his mind on paper. "I almost always begin with description, as a way of focusing on that compelling imageĀ
" (Doty 1). He is helping us understand what he is seeing. A perfect example of this would be the first two stanzas. This is the icebreaker that will lead us to the metaphor soon to come.
We don't have to wait long before we are stuck with a......
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