For example, the main thematic concern of the text is the parabolic paradox of fish (men) desiring bait (the nameless, sexually objectified lover) - while "lovingly you swim" - but not wanting, in the literal sphere of presumption, to be trapped by the 'strangling noose or windowed net' of the fishermen, or rather, metaphorically, by a relationship that goes beyond the purely carnal experience and evolves into an authentic connection. Both the fish and the bait, both protagonists of romance, are therefore depicted as dual forms of predator and prey, in a perpetual state of consuming and being consumed by each other and by themselves. It is a damning and sincere indictment, through a quiet authorial intrusion and an innovative literalization of the piscatorial metaphor, of the universally harmful temperament of