The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop

Okay, so I'm still getting a hang of this blogging thing but it's better that i got this up late than never.

As I was reading "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, I had the imagery of the fisherman and the fish he caught in my head. From what i understood, it seemed as if he was quite proud that he caught the fish that seem to have escaped from every other fishermen. The hooks on the fish's lower lip said it all. It had 5 pieces of fish-line from the previous failed catches. Bishop described the fish as old and just wasnt able to fight this battle as he did from the other 5 fishing lines. It seemed as if he gave in and just didnt care of the capture after fighting for so long and so hard. He didnt fight at all and just hung there with venerability filling up his gills. It seems that the fisherman let the fish go only because he saw that the fish had battle scars. He was very happy and victorious that he captured a fighting fish that suffered through other fishing lines but the fish was old, so I'm guessing that the fish was freed so that he can live the rest of his life where he belongs.