The Milkfish Gatherers
What metaphors are used in The Milkfish Gatherers by James Fenton?
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The revolutionary setting of the poem, fraught with struggle and blooming and fading ideas of future lives after political victory, is a vast metaphor for the current and ongoing revolution of the poem.
The Milkfish Gatherers