Wednesday, March 6, 2013
The Fish
This poem is very narrative and expressive . Do you think she is imagining the fish ? The details she use to describe the fish she caught .... Tremendous and how the brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper and its pattern of dark brown was like wallpaper/ How she related it to wallpaper was very peculiar it had me wonder was this a familiar place. Do you think she related the fish to familiar places and/or things in her life?
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As I mentioned in my blog post I think the fish is real but at the same time somewhat exaggerated. The fish is a representation of a conflict within the author's mind that's why the fish is wounded. I think the quote that you found interesting in the poem actually refers to all these burdens within herself that she kept hidden for so many years.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely feel the same way about her taking the fish and exaggerating it to relate to a conflict or many conflicts the author is hiding. Then when she let it go maybe that can mean her starting a new leaf and throwing all her conflicts into the water with the fish.
DeleteYes--what are the terms of this conflict? The imagery suggests a conflict on more that one level. And how is the speaker's final act--and the poem's final image--a resolution, if it is, or perhaps a final staging, of these conflicts? See my comments on previous blogs, study sheet, etc
ReplyDeleteIn my blog post, i mention that it may be relatable to her past. Or feelings and times in her life that she kept hidden in a corner of her mind. Based on this part of the poem, it may be that she is either embracing the characteristics of another life; or that she is remenicing and accepting this time of her life.
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