The Fish

English 102

March 30, 2012
Found Respect
The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop, is a poem of respect and is told through imagery. This is Bishops story of a magazine when she went look foring for the biggest fish. The Fish, a lady catches this massive fish on her rented boat. After catching this she realizes that the fish is not pose up a fight back. Instead he looks at her. date holding this fish she begins to examine the fish and she discoers that this fish as five hooks in its mouth, left in in that respect by previous fisher men. She gains respect for the fish and lets him go in the end.
Within the original few lines we see Bishop is on a boat in a body of pee and is now holding the huge fish she has caught. I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat (1-2). As we move on we see that she is holding the fish and the fish has her hook his mouth. It is passably straight forward; we see that the fish does not fight or try to get away, which surprised her. In these first few lines she has giving us a visual of what is firing on in this poem.
As we move on Bishop begins to egress describing the fish He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable and homely. present and there (7-9). From this we see she is beginning to see something different in this fish.



She describes this huge fish by using human traits as venerable. It would be mean the fish is old and deserves respect and has wisdom. Bishop because moves on to describe the way her fish looks. Bishop uses the imagery of flowers to give a beautiful picture of this fish even though is seen at a glance as ugly. She describes the fish as being brown, with a brown pattern all over and if one would take the time they would see the flowers in him and lever his wisdom. We see Bishop uses the flower pattern to describe the old fishes dishful several times in the poem shapes like mature roses stained and lost through age (14-15) and in He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime,(16-17). She...If you want to get a well(p) essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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