The Fish

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The Fish

• Elizabeth Bishop
• p. 574

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Lesson Objective to show how imagery helps to
convey theme of poem

• 1. Define the literary terms. (image, simile,
  metaphor, theme)
• 2. Read/Listen to the poem.

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• 3. Paraphrase the poem.

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Discussion Questions

• 1. What is the speakers attitude toward the
  fish? How is the fish characterized?
• 2. What does she see as she looks at the fish?
• 3. What is the poems theme?

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Use of Sound

• No end rhyme
• Assonance

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Connection

• Root Cellar, p. 648

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Why I like this poem

• splendor in the ordinary