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The Fish

Within Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “The Fish” the word “like” is used numerous times to describe certain physical features of the fish. More importantly, however, one must trace the transformation of “like” to describe how the fish goes from being regarded just as a typical brown ratty fish to gaining the respect it deserves as an actual human being, due to the life it has lived.
At the beginning of the poem, the word “like” is used to describe the skin the fish has on its aged body and how this physical feature displays an important characteristic of the fish. “Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost with age.” This passage evokes to an understanding of what the fish looks like, and the ancient wallpaper that helps describe the age of the fish. This passage also helps lead into the next passage of the poem which describes what the inside......


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