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Fish’s Night Song

Here’s Christian Morgenstern’s (1871-1914) “Fisches Nachtgesang,” or, “Fish’s Night Song.”
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It’s one more example of American parochialism that nowhere in Bartlett’s Quotations is a line of this poem reproduced.

03.24.09 PERMALINK | COMMENTS (4)

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4 Comments for “Fish’s Night Song”

Hm. Well, fans of the fish above might like to know about “Fisches Nachtgesang – an art-music band from Finland. We write our own material based on the lyrics of the nonsense-poet Christian Morgenstern.”
Check out their video!
Posted By: Don Share on March 24, 2009 at 1:07 pm
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“Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”
- Steven Wright
Posted By: Gary B. Fitzgerald on March 24, 2009 at 2:56 pm
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one of my favorite concrete poems
Posted By: nico vassilakis on March 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm
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looks to me like lines of spondees alternating with lines of pyrrhics—I just peformed it using the schwa sound and it sounds really cool.
Posted By: Annie FInch on March 25, 2009 at 7:48 am
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