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 imagery 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.
             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. 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. ee796847063gb The theme Bishop puts into her poem is
             quite the opposite, she treat's the fish as if it was a human with feelings and capability of having wisdom. The fisherman sympathizes with the history and dexterity of this fish and begins to form feelings for this wise fish
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