"Full fathom five thy father lies
Of his bones are corals made
Those are pearls that were his eyes
Nothing of him that doth fade."

The rhyme scheme of the above stanza is

"In the cold hand of death...
his mouth was cotton filled, his man-pike
shrunk to a sub-soil grub
his head was hallowed and his brain
on scales-was this a trick to prove
fore-knowledge after death?"

Based on Wole Soyinka's '' Post Mortem, one of the techniques employed by this poet is the use of

"Marjorie turns to the fish, They swim slickly
backwards and forwards in the bright heaven of
their tanks:'white gravel,silver bubbles,green weed and the iridescence of their scales.They
cheer her. How much more beautiful fish are than
people, she thinks for the thousandth time.No
ungainliness,no filth;no stupidity."

Based on Lesley Glaister's "Serrusalmus", New Writing, in the passage above, the fish are better than people because they are

"He considers also a little fragile,because artistic:
I need to be cared for, like a potted plant. A little
pruning, a little watering, a little weeding and
straightening up to bring out the best in me."

Based on Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, the "me" in the above passage is seen as