The Fish Lines 21-33
It’s clearly seen in the beginning unpredictable how the woman is when she catches the fish and it doesn’t put up a fight. As the fish was pulled out of the water, it felt the oxygen to be a powerful shock that would kill him slowly. She describes the fish as homely and ugly with seaweed hanging from his body. Also, she mentions the fish to be massive in size viewed with utter disgust having a rough appearance. The woman thought next about the fish’s insides. The first thought that came to her mind was everything packed together in there like packed feathers. As she envisions the insides of the fish she pictures what she describes to be massive and microscopic bones. Putting more thoughts in her mind about the fish made her picture the radiate red and black of the fish’s entrails. Although the speaker was disgusted by the fish’s appearance, she let it go due to its previous close encounters with death. Thinking of all it has been through in its life just to have it end there wasn’t fair. Although unpredictable behavior can be one way of interpreting the poem there are many more.