Swimming pool
The Swimming Pool In his poem, The Swimming Pool, Thomas Lux describes the outward appearance of a group of five young boys and girls surrounding an apartment swimming pool. ... swimming pool/ the boys stare at the girls/ and the girls look everywhere but the opposite” (1-3). The children have gathered around the apartment’s pool jeer at one fat boy who has joined the group: “The fat boy has it the hardest, he/ takes the sneers” (6-7). ... At line thirty the poet makes mention of the apartment swimming pool again by stating that what happens around the pool happens everywhere. ... Finally, in the last few lines of the poem, the poet uses the swimming school as a metaphor. The swimming pool is a metaphor for what goes on in life and the children represent the class distinctions. In a swimming pool, there is a deep end and a shallow end. ... The upper class making fun of the lower class is like they are stepping on the lower class’s shoulders providing unstable support toward the bottom of the pool.