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Fish’s Night Song

By Daisy Fried

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.

2009-03-24

Comments (4)

  • On March 24, 2009 at 1:07 pm Don Share wrote:

    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!
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  • On March 24, 2009 at 2:56 pm Gary B. Fitzgerald wrote:

    “Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.”
    - Steven Wright
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  • On March 24, 2009 at 6:37 pm nico vassilakis wrote:

    one of my favorite concrete poems
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  • On March 25, 2009 at 7:48 am Annie FInch wrote:

    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.
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Posted in Group Blog, Uncategorized on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 by Daisy Fried.

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