The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop

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Feb 24, 2021 Livia rated it liked it

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TW: slight gore (fish)

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My Rating: 2.5 stars rounded upward

- I was falling asleep reading this, annotating this and answering questions on this. The imagery was expert but otherwise, it did not grab my interest.

I liked this 1 better than some of the other Modernist poems I had to read. Information technology was very interesting how Bishop used the colors... the colour of its tattered skin, the colors of the barnacles and sea lice covering it, the seaweed, the yellowing eyes, the fishing lines hanging from its jaw, fifty-fifty the oily rainbow at the bottom of the gunkhole and orangish of the rust. She too uses color to vividly describe what she imagines the within of the fish volition look like: the white flesh, the black and red entra I liked this one better than some of the other Modernist poems I had to read. It was very interesting how Bishop used the colors... the colour of its tattered peel, the colors of the barnacles and body of water lice covering it, the seaweed, the yellowing eyes, the fishing lines hanging from its jaw, fifty-fifty the oily rainbow at the bottom of the gunkhole and orange of the rust. She also uses colour to vividly describe what she imagines the within of the fish volition await like: the white flesh, the black and scarlet entrails, and the pink swim float. And all of that comes together to form the rainbow at the end when she decides to allow the fish go. ...more than

April 08, 2021 Alien Reader rated information technology really liked it

I listened to this poem read by Elizabeth Bishop herself on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?5=bnkD_...

Surprisingly Elizabeth Bishop's reading of her ain poem makes it audio worse than when I read it in my head. Sometimes poetry is better read in silence.

I similar the bloodshot optimism of this verse form. Similar in novels and stories, I like when the protagonist has to survive an impossibly difficult situation. And usually the harder the situation, the more satisfying it is at the end, when the pr

I listened to this poem read by Elizabeth Bishop herself on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/lookout?v=bnkD_...

Surprisingly Elizabeth Bishop's reading of her own poem makes it sound worse than when I read it in my head. Sometimes poesy is better read in silence.

I like the bittersweet optimism of this poem. Similar in novels and stories, I like when the protagonist has to survive an impossibly hard situation. And usually the harder the situation, the more satisfying it is at the stop, when the protagonist has survived confronting all odds. This poem has that theme only condensed into a single moment when you catch a fish and see that information technology has battle scars and fishing hooks stuck in its trunk but is yet swimming on.

A verse form nearly survival, evading death despite it coming afterwards you lot again and again. The serenity celebration of overcoming disaster.

At some point when life gets actually hard you get like this fish. You are not sad that death has come up after you five times, y'all are happy that yous survived five times.

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The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop is about a fisherman who defenseless an old ugly sickly looking fish who was covered in barnacles and bounding main lice. Upon inspecting his prey, the fisherman noticed the wear and tear on the old fish represented his battle scars from many previous failed attempts from past fishermen to capture him. He had five fish hooks hanging from his oral fissure representing the medals he earned from all of his escapes. The man could not bring himself to put an terminate to this strong bounding main hero's journ The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop is about a fisherman who caught an former ugly sickly looking fish who was covered in barnacles and bounding main lice. Upon inspecting his prey, the fisherman noticed the wear and tear on the old fish represented his battle scars from many previous failed attempts from past fishermen to capture him. He had five fish hooks hanging from his oral fissure representing the medals he earned from all of his escapes. The man could not bring himself to put an end to this potent sea hero'southward journeying so he set him free, the fish over again escaping his fate. ...more

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Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the Poet Laureate of the United states from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. and a National Book Honor Winner for Poetry in 1970. She is considered one of the most importa

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Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the Poet Laureate of the U.s.a. from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. She is considered i of the nearly important and distinguished American poets of the 20th century.

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