Dec 28, 2009
“The Sturgeon,” written in free verse, consists of fifty-six lines, which are divided into five stanzas or verse paragraphs. The title bluntly states the apparent subject of the poem; as with other poem titles in this posthumous collection—“Wine,” “Suspenders,” “Lemonade,” “Letter,” and “Summer Fog,” for example—Raymond Carver does not force the title to mean anything. It simply names the object on which Carver decides to focus the poem.
The poem is written in the first person, and the speaker is the poet himself reminiscing about his...
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