Fishing Between Poets
Elizabeth Bishop illustrates amazing imagery in the poem "The Fish," and has more details than Wanda Garner's "The Catch. Both of these poems tell the story in first person, and their luck gives them the catch of a great fish that would impress anyone. Under the circumstances, the greater of good takes over and feelings of obligation to throw the fish back wins in the end. The poems have similarities and differences of great magnitude such as; uses of stunning imagery, themes, and also sound devices. Bishop gives vivid imagery of the fish that didn't put up a fight by describing the fish as "battered and venerable and homely." Garner doesn't put much thought into details of the fish, and says she "admired her natural beauty." Between the two poems, you can tell that Garner wasn't trying at all to put any imagery into her work, while Bishop makes her poem a little longer to give a better image to paint in the readers head. Though Garner puts more emphasis into the actually reeling in the fish, and the hard work she went through to obtain her "prize." The differences of imager
Garner puts alliteration to help reinforce the poems meaning, "For nothing else at the moment mattered," but is not used as much as Bishop. They both still did a good job using rhyme, though Bishop used all sorts or tricky line rhymes to give to poem a good pace. Even though the actual events of the poems are similar to the very end where the fisherman lets the fish go, the themes of the poems are very different. Bishop's poem is longer, so finding more alliteration would be expected. I stared and stared," and "shallower, and yellowed. Bishop can do more then put alliteration into a poem; she also uses assonance and consonance with the lines, "frayed and wavering, a five-haired beard of wisdom trailing from his aching jaw. There are lots of rhymes in both poems, and the only difference is that Garner keeps the rhyming in a steady beat. 'Fight' and 'weight', 'wallpaper' and 'wallpaper', 'in' and 'oxygen', 'jaw' with 'saw' and 'jaw', 'lip' and 'lip', 'rainbow' with 'rainbow' and 'go', these are some line rhymes found in "The Fish" and Bishop also used internal and cross rhyme such as; "the irises backed and packed" and "around the rusted engineto the bailer rusted orange," which Garner fails to put into her poem. The theme of Garner's "The Catch" is more focused on the struggle, determination, and desire that the fisherman goes through to get this great catch. The rhythm of both poems keeps a pretty natural pace when reading them. In the end, I feel the overall rating of Bishop's and Garner's poems are quite different in many areas. y are clear on the different aspects of fishing, either the hard long struggle of the catch or what kind of struggle the fish has been through in the past. One can tell Garner tried to keep a certain meter on the rhyming in her poem, which is somewhat interesting but Bishop definitely displays better skills in this area. "Still crimped from the strain and snap," to repeat the sound of an 's' help emphasizes the meaning of the word 'still'.
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