Posted by Tatyana Lazukova (24.23.55.15) on June 28, 2005 at 6:34:30 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: "The Fish" posted by Lourdes Hernandez on June 27, 2005 at 11:03:23 p.m.:
Learning about elements of poetry helped me to look at this poem from a different perspective. This is narrative poem. In the tone of Elizabeth Bishop's speaker the reader hears a lot of pride and sympathy. The fish remains passive and doesn't fight, which symbolizes the pain. The poem ends on a note of celebration because the speaker lets the fish go.
>I really like “the fish” (by Elizabeth Bishop). Poem the writer describe the fish very well. The tremendous fish is being caught many times that he is been fighting for his life before.. It makes me think that the fish is big but at the sametime is weak too, that he has no hope for freedom this time. But the person feels sorry for the fish when his was starring at the poor fish and decided to let the fish go.