Connect an offshoot of realism, naturalism was a literary movement in which writers worked to describe ordinary life accurately and realistically. Look at lines 45-55. How does the speaker personify the fish? Why does Bishop have the speaker revise her initial statement about the fish?

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Carmelo Hayden

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7 September, 05:12

Connect an offshoot of realism, naturalism was a literary movement in which writers worked to describe ordinary life accurately and realistically. Look at lines 45-55. How does the speaker personify the fish? Why does Bishop have the speaker revise her initial statement about the fish?

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Jimena Jimenez · Answer 1

The speaker personify the fish by given the fish a male gender and she refers the fish using the pronoun "his". Though the fish lacks emotion but she uses the adjective vulnerable to qualify the fish.

As she observed closer, she understands and share the feelings of the fish and she finally set the fish free.

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The poem fish by Elizabeth Bishop shows the ecological awareness that made her to accept the relationship that exist between human beings and non human beings. This was shown when she set the fish free.