Blog # 7 - The Fish

I choose to write about "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, mostly because I like fish. I thought this poem was full of great imagery, comparing the characteristics of the fish to flowers, made it more familiar to me. Even though I like fish, I don't know too much about them. I thought it was also interesting how the whole poem was just about a fish. It did not have a real rhyme scheme to it, but I still enjoyed reading it. Sometimes describing a simple thing can be something wonderful. You can describe anything you want and it will interest someone. I liked how in the end of the poem the fisherman(or woman) let the fish go along with the other ones who caught it. I am not sure why he/she did that, but by the end of the poem it seemed the right thing to do. Even though a person does something great, sometimes being unselfish (ha fish) is the way to go. So, I hope the fish was free to swim some more and the next catcher, let it go too.