Bishop’s poem (I feel) has a sense of humor. As ever, I'd love to hear what fish poems strike you, too. Darwin recapitulates this idea by stating: The poem intrigues me, and also startles me a little, and that’s part of why I like it so much. that from his lower lip Like medals with their ribbons where oil had spread a rainbow Throughout his book, Darwin expands on his belief that species evolve over time and with each change or mutation, the species become better adapted to their surroundings. There is no escape. labor haul it in. (Martin, your recipe, if you ever send it, will reach me too late. packed in like feathers, ‘The Fish’ by Elizabeth Bishop is considered to be one of her best poems. I just love it when I’m geeking out on placards and run across some word or line or phrase that makes me think of a poem. He also attempts virtuosic feats with his sound and concrete poetry. and homely. Bishop’s poem is more factual and realistic, making it slightly more rugged with lines like He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. As ever, I'd love to hear what fish poems strike you, too. I agree with Sealy, her descriptions are almost childlike, using big bones and little bones, therefore it is easier to comprehend. around the rusted engine trailing from his aching jaw.”  And then this ending, an ending that knocks me out every time: …I stared and stared There are many instances in which a song can be compared to a poem such as Elizabeth Bishops “The Fish” and the theme song from the 1981 film “Chariots of Fire”. He delves into “pataphysics,” the poetics of an imaginary science which renders the English language whimsical and at times nonsensical. In “The Fish”, I personally was caught up in all the excitement because I know what it feels like to catch a really gigantic fish. . For awhile, it seemed there would be plenty of the luminescent schools of sardines to keep all of these appetites satisfied. Where she describes the flesh packed like-feathers show major imagery, if anyone knows what the inside of the fish looks like. then, when the crowded fish Dungy’s full-length poetry publications include Trophic... As someone who lived on the sea for many years and is now landlocked, as someone who has North Sea salt in his veins and now everything is seasoned with fish sauce, as someone who is carrying a winnowing fan over his shoulder and nobody even thinks it might be an oar, an aging Odysseus that far from the sea, I love this article, Camille. He was speckled and barnacles, He hung a grunting weight, (If my unplugged-placard-reading-recollection serves me, the quota these days is set at about 80,000 tons a year). Poet and editor Camille T. Dungy was born in Denver but moved often as her father, an academic physician, taught at many different medical schools across the country. These two are great examples of their related fresh and crisp with blood, . into inter-dependence; we have built the great cities; now How does this speaker sound similar to Moore’s speaker? Elizabeth Bishop's poem The Fish displays her ecological awareness that leads her to accept a relationship of coexistence between human beings and nonhuman beings. Take more than all, add to kept bodies kept souls--or anarchy, the little rented boat, The line by Bishop I just quoted to me justifies this line from Moore “All external marks of abuse are present on this defiant edifice—”. It’s a fascinating, telescoping poem, half lyric half preachy, part wistful part vengeful, a little bit melancholy and a little bit holier-than-thou. The most secret inside of it, the water under the little bank, the bare hands around it.\rIn Scotland the salmon mount all the great rivers to spawn, and everybody knows the photograph of the fly fisherman with his waders, tweed hat and jacket casting for the trophy in the late afternoon water. In Moore’s poem I feel more like I am the fish when I read it and in Bishop’s poem it’s obviously a story about a fish she caught. was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! He compiled evidence from his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle in the 1830’s, wrote about his conclusions which involved a compilation of his writings from his travels, collection of data, and analysis of the results. He didn’t fight. from the pool of bilge There are many instances in which a song can be compared to a poem such as Elizabeth Bishops “The Fish” and the theme song from the 1981 film “Chariots of Fire”. The inevitable mass-disasters In the 1930’s, when the sardine factories in Monterey were operating at their peak, nearly three-quarters of a million tons of sardines were processed annually. Like this:\rIf only we could get back\rTo the dream of sex which is not sex,\rThe prince, the arms, the tan face,\rThe castle, the explanations, mother, father,\rBrother, sister, the conquering, the sand,\rThe waters, the coughing, the poetry,\rThe light just above you as you look up,\rYou’re a fish, swimming towards the boy,\rhe boy in the boat with his grandfather,\rThe boy is listening to his grandfather tell a joke;\rYou will interrupt, you will startle the boy’s line;\rYou will be pulled up on the boat,\rYou will be kept, to die, slowly,\rAnd the boy will no longer know what to think.\rBut the idea was to die for him.\rThe idea was to save his life.