Skin Deep

Skin Deep Many authors have used different techniques to express certain situations; some use their imagination to depict an event while others use observations and induction to explain why circumstances occur. Some of these authors suggest reasons why these events occur or do not occur. In the poem “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, there is an anonymous character that caches a tremendous fish and speculates on the motives for the lack of fight generated by …

…outlooks on life. In the poem there is an anonymous character that has caught an unmistakably old, “battered and venerable and homely” fish that has apparently given up on life. The poem takes place on a body of water in a “little rented boat.” The speaker initially responds to the situation when he holds the fish beside the boat half out of the water, with his hook in the corner of its mouth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**