The poem “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop describes the relationship between humanity and beauty. Bishop wrote 76 lines of sentences on her poem “The Fish” and the images she shows are precise and almost true to life. Al though most readers of the poem “The Fish” have argued that Bishop poem is only about the fish as an object, closer examination shows that there is more to it than just a fish. Bishop uses images and beauty to prove that it’s more than just a fish later she shows compassion by freeing it. Despite the fact she indicates that the fish is very unattractive at the beginning of her poem but throughout the ending of the poem, she starts looking at things differently and realizes that even though the fish has a lot of imperfections, …show more content…
She gets the reader captivated onto it, making it believable and real. On the poem above Bishop stating how the fish’s skin is old and aging by comparing the skin to ancient wallpaper. Here Bishop examines the fish by what it looks like. Then she continued using imagery and described the of the fish appearance by using colors such as: He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, with tiny white sea-lice, underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down.16-21). Even though those are the colors shows the beauty of the fish but those colors also show the resemblance of what the fish has been through. After Bishop studies deeper about the fish go through more she comes summarize the fish has been through a lot and there, she formed a bond and began to respect the