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Essay Archive - The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop: Gone Fishin'
"The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop is saturated with vivid imagery and
abundant description, which help the reader visualize the action. Bishop's use
of imagery, narration, and tone allow the reader to visualize the fish and
create a bond with him, a bond in which the reader has a great deal of
admiration for the fish's plight. The mental pictures created are, in fact, so
brilliant that the reader believes incident actually happened to a real person,
thus building respect from the reader to the fish.
Initially the reader is bombarded with an intense im....
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