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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"
    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"
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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish"

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    A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535822602
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      A Study Guide for Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" - Gale

      09

      The Fish

      Elizabeth Bishop

      1940

      Introduction

      The Fish is considered one of Elizabeth Bishop's best and most popular poems, and it is her most frequently anthologized work. It is representative not only of her early work (in style and form) but also of her work as a whole (in theme and tone). Given that Bishop is one of America's foremost modernist poets, The Fish is not only a standout work from Bishop's overall oeuvre but also an exemplary work of modernist poetry. Though the poem appears to be a straightforward if somewhat flowery description of a fish caught by the speaker, it ultimately becomes a treatise on perception and reality. The poem is also highly meditative; as the speaker holds the newly caught fish, the unspoken problem of whether to release it or keep it is being deliberated through the speaker's observations of the fish and of the life it must have led. In addition, through the description of the fish, several different poetic devices are employed, adding to the range and depth of the poem. First published in the Partisan Review in 1940, The Fish was next included in Bishop's 1946 poetry collection North and South. The poem remains one of Bishop's most well-known works, and it is often included in both high school and college curriculums as an integral part of the study of modernist poetry. The Fish is widely available on the Internet and can be easily found in the 1984 edition of Bishop's Complete Poems, 1927-1979, a volume that has remained continuously in print since its first

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