Response to The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop Essay -- Poetry Poem Fish Eli

Response to The Fish By Elizabeth BishopI chose to respond to Elizabeth Bishops The Fish because the rime seems so simple, yet there is much to gather from reading it. This is a narrative poem told in the number one person about a woman who catches a fish on a rented boat and, by and by 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, consequently intrigued by him, and then finally sympathetic towards him. In the very first lines of Bishops poem, the narrator catches the fish and treats him as such. I caught a tremendous fish / and held him beside the boat / half out of water, with my hook / fast in a corner of his mouth (Bishop 665). She has just caught a fish and is in the affect of bringing him onto the boat. She seems very disconnected from this fish, who is just the target of a sport--fishing. When she gets the endangerment to take a good look at him, it seems that her view changes from insularism to curiosity and admiration.She notices that the fish doesnt struggl...