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Ms. Keith, It’s good to read that you are doing well.  I really enjoy your writing.  Below is a scan of a note you sent me in 1995 after I mailed you some comments about your book, Postcards from Paradise.  I remember commenting that every time I went to Key West, I would have breakfast […]

In class we studied how to develop a paragraph using examples, including topic sentence, explanation of topic sentence, the examples, and a short conclusion.  Please post your final paragraph below.  The paragraph you post should be a clean final version. Here is a link to the University of North Carolina page that explains how to […]

The Fish: An Explication   Lines 34-44 of The Fish, by Elizabeth Bishop, are extremely particular in describing the author’s view of the fish’s eyes. She realizes the fish’s eyes are humongous enough to analyze all his features. The yellow coloring and loss of luster in his eyes showed his age. The gelatin layer of […]

ELIZABETH BISHOP THE FISH TABLE 2, LINES 09 – 21   First of all, the title plays a vital role as to uncovering the true meaning and significant of the poem entitled “THE FISH” by Elizabeth Bishop. What we get from the title is that it has some what to do with a fishing experience […]

  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 […]

“The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop Lines 45-60               Elizabeth Bishop writes a poem titled “The Fish,” which was copy-written in 1979 and in 1983 by Alice. Bishop, a thirty-three year old woman, talks excessively of this Goliath Grouper’s features. She describes his face like an old grumpy man. She continues to identify that the […]

Group 1 Reading lines 1 through 9 of “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, one may come to the conclusion that she has taken a fishing trip. On this fishing trip she catches a fish. The fish was big and heavy, probably weighing a ton. She held the fish on the side of the boat. Half […]

Group 6, Last Paragraph In the last part of the poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop, the author makes a correlation between the aspect and feeling of the Goliath Grooper fish and the boat in which she was fishing. Reading between the last lines we can conclude that the author feels sympathy and relates herself […]

Your individual assignment was to write an explication of a section of Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “The Fish.”  After you all write your group explication (1 paragraph) one of you will upload the entire explication in this space.     Each of you will then comment on the explication of the poem.   Please post your […]

As your final assessment for poetry, you will read and discuss a poem by Emily Dickinson.  I happen to love the poem, perhaps because I can relate to it just a bit too much!  Here is a link to the poem: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174990 Please read the poem carefully. In a well-thought out post, write a 4-paragraph […]