Which three lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" show that the fish has given up struggling for survival after living a hard life?

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Ivan

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2 December, 15:06

Which three lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" show that the fish has given up struggling for survival after living a hard life?

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Eliana Kemp · Answer 1

He didn't fight.

He hadn't fought at all.

battered and venerable

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Ariella Dodson · Answer 2

In the following, you will find the excerpts from "Elizabeth Bishop's" The fish in that very situation:

"I caught a tremendous fish, and held him beside the boat, half out of water, with my hook, fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper,"