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Originally Posted by HardRock I would appreciate any comment. The following is a paraphrae for “The Fish” by Bishop |
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Originally Posted by HardRock I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of its mouth.
(The poetic persona says that he caught a huge fish and held it next to the small vessel .The fish is out of water with the speaker’s hook firmly fixed in one corner of its mouth.) |
He caught a fish. It was big--really big. :wink:
I see nothing that indicates the size of the boat. What am I missing?
I would say that fish is like a fish out of water. :wink:
The fish is partly out of the water, but its weight is partly supported by the water.
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Originally Posted by HardRock He didn’t fight.
He hadn’t fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight,
battered and venerable
and homely.
(He did not struggle .He had not never struggled. It is heavy, damaged with repeated blows, respected and unattractive.) |
I think the writer meant that the fish had not struggled when the man tried to get the fish into the boat. Rather than "respected and "attractive" I would probably say "old and ugly'.
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