The Fish By Elizabeth Bishop

In this poem Elizabeth describes her fishing out on the water and catching a fish that is just not a normal kind of fish.  She describes this fish as such a tremendous fish and one that she has never came across before.  It must have been an older fish that has gone through a lot and finally thinks it their time to go.  As she describes in the poem, the fish was stained and lost through age.  It had givin up without a fight, " He didnt fight, he hadn't fought at all".  The fish was slouched at the end of the fishing rod and knew their time to go.  "He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable".  Throughout the poem she is trying t paint this picture in the reader's eye, and all the pieces were being formed as you were reading the poem and finally towards the end of the pem everything comes together and she lets the fish go!