On Reading Poems to a Senior Class at South High by D.C. Berry

I enjoyed this poem a lot and it actually made me laugh a little bit. I can just imagine me in the authors place in front of out AP Lit class and suddenly my classmates turn into fishys. What I got from this poem is something I will think about everytime I know present to the class about how we are all fish. From the poem I think that the author shows a good example of what a classroom turns into when a student is presenting a poem. It is always harder to control a class and keep the attention of the students when a fellow student it contrilling the class. The third stanza shows what I am talking about perfectly about how maybe a student is reading a poem to a class, but all the class is doing is talking and drowning out the person presenting. But when they do get the class to pay attention the presentation of the poem is great and they go and swim in the aquarium together and learn together. I really enjoyed how the author kept the fish metaphor all throughout the poem even until the very last line where the cat licks the gills away. I have never really read a poem like this where students are considered fish and I thought is was reall weird that I have something in common with those students. HAHA I am a fish!!!