The Fishs Image

The Fish’s Image With fewer than fifty published poems Elizabeth Bishop is not one of the most prominent poets of our time. She is however well known for her use of imagery and her ability to convey the narrator’s emotions to the reader. In her vividly visual poem “The Fish”, the reader is exposed to a story wherein the use of language not only draws the reader into the story but causes the …

…again connects the audience to the story via our previous feelings of sympathy for the fish. So as you can see there are many ways that an author can use literary devices, or even simple punctuation, to express to the reader a myriad of emotions and situations. This all leads to the conclusion that the power and use of language is as important to the story, as the story itself. Bibliography Elizabeth Bishop The Fish