Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and Mary Oliver both have interesting takes on the loaves and fishes story. Their two interpretations are not as far apart as it first seems.
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Chaucer & Mary Oliver on Loaves and Fishes
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A White Cross Streaming across the Sky
Mary Oliver’s “Swan” has an Easter message.
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Feeding This Feverish Plot
Mary Oliver’s “Fish” may be her interpretation of the post-Resurrection story of Jesus eating boiled fish.
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Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot
One can read Mary Oliver’s “The Fish” as a description of the eucharist–which is appropriate for today’s gospel reading about fishing for people.
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Nourished by the Mystery
Two Mary Oliver fish poems complement well Christ’s invitation to become “fishers of people.”
Finding Hope in a Captured Fish
Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” works as a powerful meditation on hope.
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