The poem by Bishop is very interesting and used many figurative words drawing the image of a fish in my head as if i was their when the author was experiencing it. Culturally one way or another every body is scared of death. But the question is; Is everybody willing to fight for their lives or except their faith. No one really knows their future unless they are terminally ill although, the future is very unpredictable. The fish in the poem seem to know the product of its environment and sort of hence what could have or will happen. Bishop described the fish pointing out all of its flaws turning them into flaws of beauty. Comparing its scales to ancient wall paper. She acknowledged the fishes essence of being and aesthetics.
- Jenny Truongle
Some interesting points, here, which you'll want to work through more clearly--we should be careful of course about saying the the fish itself "knows" anything, but we can say the poem is in part about finding beauty in the everyday--and in that which would normally not be considered "beautiful," in the conventional sense. See my comments on Jackson's, Gina's, Florina's, Ashely's (both), Amanda's and Adam's blogs, as well as blogs from previous classes (as noted) and, of course, the blogs themselves.
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