English
“The Fish” is the most anthologized poem written by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem has gained its popularity because it avoids the surrealism present in almost every other work of the author. The title provides the idea of what the poem is about. The key theme of the poem is the problem of choice whether to keep the caught fish or to release it. Either decision has its own consequences for the fisher that interlaces with the subject of withstanding of man and nature.
This mediative lyric poem describes the author's thoughts and feelings. It creates a single and unified
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