Metaphor in "The Fish"

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The paper attempts to convey how Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Fish" is interesting and effective mainly because of its effective use of metaphor. The paper pinpoints the use of metaphor in the poem and shows how Bishop incorporates this commonly used literary device into the overall narrative.

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"Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was a well-known poet of the middle part of the 20th century, but what is not so widely known is that she was a painter as well as a poet, and it seems that her talent for visual artistry often comes through in the strong visual details of her poems, including the one to be discussed here, "The Fish," written in 1946. An early mentor of hers in the field of poetry was fellow poet Marianne Moore, who shared Bishop's early interest in the detailed visual depiction of objects of the natural world and from whom she may have picked up her fascination with metaphor, a literary figure which she uses to good effect in "The Fish." "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Meyer, Michael. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. 7th Ed. New York: Bedford-St. Martins 2006.

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