What Is The Mood Of The Poem The Fish

The poem “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop is a condensed reflective lyric, that has a clear imagery and plenty descriptive stanza that aid readers to visualize the scene from the author’s point of view and though her eyes. Bishop wrote the poem with use of description, tone and portrayals, which created a bond and understanding of what the fish look like and the setting where it all took place. The way the poem is written also created a great deal of respect and sympathy for the fish’s plight; which aids in the understanding and empathy of the release of the fish in the end. The scene was so vivid, when reading the poem one cannot help themselves, but to bring themselves on the boat experience with Elizabeth a skill fisherwoman, and the moments she spend with this fish. The poem make reader believe the scene actually happen, thus creating and building admiration to the fish.

She instantly started to be depicted the fish as noble, beaten and tired “He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely.” She then goes on to barraging the reader with tremendous description of the fish, using familiar item to describe the way the fish looks; “his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age.” compare the fish to acquainted everyday items, things a person can relate to in today’s life. Then Elizabeth quickly switched to the making the reader sympathetic to the fish. Using words like