Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Man-Moth” is a captivating piece of literature. It tells the fascinating story of a fictional character known as Man-Moth, who periodically comes up to the human world to literally reach for the sky by scaling up buildings, hoping to reach up and peek his head through the hole in the sky we have come to know as the moon. Upon failing, he returns to his home beneath the surface; the train carries him down into the depths below. Its descriptive language leaves the reader with a sense of wonder, and the themes of longing and loneliness give the poem a melancholy atmosphere to it. All of this adds to the aura of mystery that develops within the reader as they begin to wonder what it all means. The poem presents itself as
