During the class discussion on the poem “Lobsters” comment regarding the comparison between lobsters and humans came up. I am not sure as to who made this comparison or what the exact comment was, but I believe it was on the subject of how lobsters were related to humanly positions such as a philosopher, a victim, and a cadaver. Another idea from the poem that was brought up was the description of lobsters describing them as sleep walkers and “shells of a dream.”
I was thinking of these two comments and started thinking about how humans could too be compared to sleep walkers. If you were to watch our everyday lives we do nothing more urgent normally than a sleep walker would. We get up get dressed go to school and sit solitary for an hour. We then slowly we are shoved into the same hallway bumping into one another walking seemingly blindly to our next class, sit for another hour and repeat the cycle again and again and again. Then we go home and sit at home and do homework watch TV and go to bed. Yes, we do occasionally do something more active such as a sport but in totality we are, from a distance, no more than “shells of a dream.”
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