The Fish

           In the sea there are a lots of marine organisms. People who go to fishing they are don’t know exactly what they fishing for those fishers might catch a fish might not.         

           In this poem Elizabeth is showing the reader how the speaker caught a huge fish. . “I caught a tremendous fish” (line1). She described in the five seven lines how did the fish surrendered without fighting “ He hadn’t fought at all.”(line5) The poet compares the fish in the poem to wall- paper, although she repeated it in two lines, so she tired to give us attention to how much the fish is big and old “ like ancient wall-paper” (line11).

           The poet describes the fish’s “homely” body form its skin, color, and its shape: “ shapes like full- blown roses” (line14). She also described inner the fish’s body that has terrible oxygen “ while his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen” (line24). After that she starts to take us to the past, and how the fish was beautiful: “like medals with their ribbons” “frayed and wavering.”(Line 61-62)

           Finally, the fisher in this poem let the fish go “And I let the fish go”(line 76). The reader in this poem fined a nice irony. The irony is that the fisher didn’t take the fish. She let fish go because she thought she wanted to catch a nice fish for eating, not an ugly, unhealthy, and old fish.