Response to "the Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop Summary: The Fish is a narrative poem by Elizabeth Bishop told in the first person about a woman who catches a fish on a rented boat and, after staring at him for a while, decides to throw him back. The narrator of this poem goes through a series of stages in which she is at first detached from the fish, then intrigued by him, and then finally sympathetic towards him. Response to "The Fish" By Elizabeth Bishop I chose to respond to Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" because the poem seems so simple, yet there is much to gather from reading it. This is a narrative poem told in the first person about a woman who catches a fish on a rented boat and, after staring at him for a while, decides to throw him back. The narrator of this poem goes through a series of stages in which she is at first detached from the fish, then intrigued by him, and then finally sympathetic towards him.
Elizabeth Bishop use of imagery really employs the reader’s five senses to understand and appreciate her poem The Fish. The author first uses imagery to help readers see the fish. She describes the fish as, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wall-paper (8-11). Through the image of the wallpaper you can clearly imagine the decay the fish has experienced.
Soon enough, Nemo found himself being captured in the net of a deep-sea-diving dentist, who searches for unique fish for his dentistry aquarium. Marlin must go literally to the ends of the ocean to find his son and bring him back home. On the way, Marlin meets an interesting character named Dory, a cheerful blue tang who has a problem with short-term memory loss. They search for Nemo together in the face of stinging jellyfish, exploding mines, and menacing creatures with hundreds of teeth. I was once a little lost fish too.
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.
Spirited Away: Modern Japan Life in the Meiji Period Spirited Away is a Japanese animation movie released on July 20, 2001. The film won a well-deserved Oscar for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Film Synopsis At the beginning of the movie, 10-year-old Chihiro Ogino and her parents move from one city to another. On the way to her new house, her parents take a totally unfamiliar route never thinking that they would stray into a ghost gods’ resting place. They cross a tunnel and her parents smell tasty food.
He sees a beautiful young woman step out of the bathtub but when the movie cuts to a mirror, the viewer sees that it is a diseased old woman. The last and most well known scene with a mirror is when Danny is writing “redrum” around their apartment and the camera flashes to a mirror, thus revealing to Wendy (and the audience) that he is writing “murder” backwards. The implication of the last two scenes, with mirrors, is that everything the viewer has seen that was not shown in a mirror may or may not be real. Another more subtle use of mirrors in The Shining is the symbolism between mirrors and doors. Most of
Beginning with her obituary and framed like a film the story moves from MacNolia’s death to courtship, marriage, birth and loss of a son, before the narrative returns to her life at age 13. At this age, MacNolia started rehearsing for various competitions including the spelling bee. By the end of the book it is revealed the public result of MacNolia’s loss in the spelling bee. Her life is narrowed; she drops out of school to become a maid for a local doctor. The movie Akeelah and the Bee by Doug Atchison, set in modern day California, is the heart-warming tale of eleven-year-old girl, Akeelah Anderson.
The "two angel forms" are the fish within the tank that the cat is eyeing carefully. As the feline reaches for the “prize”, she falls in the tank (her demise). There is also some alliteration in the poem, such as “she stretched” and “heedless hearts.” The last stanza includes the quote, “nor all that glisters, gold.” This quote denotes that even though the cat thought catching the fish would be rewarding, it only led to its demise. I enjoyed this poem because of the humour involved but also because of the imagery and the fact that the poem is about a cat yet has a deeper meaning. Thomas Gray is reminding us to look deeper into the subject or situation before jumping to conclusions based on
But then in the end she comes to good terms with her mother, when she offers her the piano she used to play on. This was on her 13th birthday. Essay: The name of the story is “Two Kinds” and it was written in 1989 by Amy Tan. It’s about a girl who in the beginning of the story is 9 years old (page 1, line 6) and in the end is 13 years old (page 5, line 160). She in this time has a identity struggle with her mother, because she is obsessed with the American idea of being anyone you want.
Assignment 1: Character In Maya Angelou’s autobiography “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, the readers get to know the protagonist lacks self confidence; however, she is an imaginative and courageous black girl when she is young. First, she lacks self-confidence. On Easter morning, she realizes that her Easter dress is only a white woman’s throwaway, which “[makes her] skin look dirty like mud, and everyone in church [is] looking at [her] skinny legs”. She feels like a second class person. When she moves to St. Louis and sees her mother for the first time, she is struck by her mother’s beauty.