Fishes’ Heaven

Posted on January 8, 2003 in Myths & Mysticism Pointers

Rupert Brooke was stuck in the trenches when he wrote a parody of beliefs about the nature of Heaven — as fish must conceive it. You can tell that his mind was off in a corner that was “forever England” while he slogged about the Greek/Turkish front, a place where he could drop a fly into a brook and pick off a brown trout for his supper.

Lynn likes to quote a line by C.S. Lewis to the effect that a heaven for mosquitos could easily be combined with a hell for humans. This poem is written in that spirit, though perhaps with more sarcasm and patent disgust with canned religion than Lewis would have dished out.