Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" is a narrative poem, told in the first person, about the confrontation between an amateur fisher--fishing in a "rented boat" (Bishop 1212; all references to the poem are to this edition)--and a "tremendous" battle-worn fish. A poem that acknowledges awareness in nature, "The Fish," although a narrative, sings in the way we expect lyric poetry to sing, for it is rich with imagery, simile, metaphor, as well as rhetorical and sound devices. I say "confrontation," but really the fish, with evidence of having been caught at least five other times, confronts the speaker (whom I'll call a "she" for convenience) only with its presence: the fight has gone out of him. The real confrontation is the speaker's internal struggle: should she keep the fish or throw it back? In a moment of illumination, she does the latter.
This makes the reader sympathetic with the fish's situation, and helps the reader relate because everyone has been fishing. Next, Bishop compares the fish to familiar household objects: "here and there / his brown skin hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of darker brown / was like wallpaper;" (87) in this, she uses two similes with common objects to create sympathy for the captive fish. Bishop then goes on to clearly illustrate what she means by "wallpaper": "shapes like full-blown roses / stained and lost through age." (87) She uses another simile here paired with descriptive phrases, and these effectively depict a personal image of the fish. She uses the familiar "wallpaper" comparison because it is something the readers can relate to their own lives.
Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”: A Psychoanalytic Reading Elizabeth Bishop’s speaker in “The Fish” describes her catch— “battered and venerable and homely”—with a mixture of sympathy and bravado. This fish, with his hook-filled mouth, emerges as a symbol of pain, an occasion for the speaker to confront that which is normally repressed and unseen. But with her elaborate, lyrical description, the speaker can be read as an artist who is able to translate this anguish into a “fivehaired beard of wisdom.” As the she celebrates her mastery over the fish, the poem ends triumphantly with the paradoxical suggestion that creativity is produced through destruction: suffering, Bishop concludes, can be the impetus for the imagination. Bishop’s speaker first describes the fish as a relic, a living diary upon which layers of meaning are physically inscribed. Coated with relics of the sea, he is “speckled with barnacles” and “infested with tiny sea lice.” In the fish, the speaker sees not only the vestiges of the sea, but also the traces of a domestic, human scene.
| juicy | | b. | It would shrivel | | c. | dry | 2) | | What would happen if you put a slice of cucumber into pure distilled water? | | a. | Swell up | | b. | Dry up | | c. | Stay the same | 3) | | You smell stinky fish from the marine bio room, because.. | | a.
Fish oil has also been tried for preventing heart disease or stroke. The scientific evidence suggests that fish oil really does lower high triglycerides, and it also seems to help prevent heart disease and stroke when taken in the recommended amounts. Ironically, taking too much fish oil can actually increase the risk of stroke. Fish may have earned its reputation as “brain food” because some people eat fish to help with depression, psychosis, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Alzheimer’s disease, and other thinking disorders. Some people use fish oil for dry eyes, glaucoma, and age-related macular
Get to know your lake structure. Points, inlets, holes, sunken islands, dams, submerged objects (manmade or natural) and reeds and weeds are all considered structure. C. The formula to freshwater fishing is simple. Structure creates shallows which in turn shallows create plant growth and plant growth attracts bait fish in turn bait fish attract game fish, which are the fish you want to catch. Conclusion: Despite Bass being one of the most rivaled sought after freshwater species by applying these tips and techniques you
An example of an external conflict would be a character fighting with another character, which is also known as person vs. person conflict. In the story The Bass, The River and Sheila Mant, a young narrator who is in love with fishing and also in love with a beautiful girl named Sheila Mant who thinks the exact opposite of fishing, finds himself at a crossroads when he has to choose between the girl, and the biggest bass of his life. I believe this story is an internal conflict because of several good points and quotes throughout the book. The Narrator loves to fish, however, Sheila does not. This can be proven by a quote on page 38, “I think fishing is dumb, I mean, it’s boring and all.
Throughout the poem, she gives many examples of ordinary everyday things that are famous to one another. These examples are familiar to each other because of the function and association of them with a certain event or task. Some of them work hand in hand, some of them require one another for survival, and some are just famous to one another because of their function. In popular culture, many of these examples are not famous to everyday people, but are famous to the things in which they are related to. The opening line of this poem is “The river is famous to the fish”.
Whites swim in Racial Preferences Tana Bovee SICI 111 L. Hardy IvyTech Community College I really enjoyed the simple but powerful metaphor explained at the beginning of this article. The comparison to fish and water with the concept of white people to themselves was something which easily caught my attention. Sad, but is true. 1. "Yet few whites have ever thought of our position as resulting from racial preferences.
He had to fish in order to catch a fish and thence catch a bigger fish and so on. Ian Frazier sees these activities as something vital in human nature. His opinion of why marginal places and activities are so important is one of which I agree with profusely. The marginal are things we simply cannot function without, such as how a page cannot function without its actual margins, fish cannot live without water, and lamps cannot function without light bulbs. These are our sort of “getaways” in which everything else seems to flow away from our minds and we are able to enjoy what to others may seem like a waste of time.