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Elizabeth Bishop
The fish
Intimate poem
Sense of giving up (the fish)
Descriptive lang on fish
Visual poem
Represents loosing resilience but also empathy
The filling station
Themes of family and love
Finding love and peace in unusual places
Dirty place
The waiting room
Wilder world acknowledgement
Child hood trauma
Sense of confusion
Questions of travel
Idea of home
Feeling of belonging
Points of view
The prodigal
Struggles of alcoholism/addiction
Bishop uses poem as metaphor for her
Poem is based on bishop visiting the farm
First death of Nova Scotia
Childhood grief
Bad things happening which you can’t control
Sad childhood perspective with touch of innocence