The author’s purpose is to _____________________?“The Fish,” by Elizabeth BishopI caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in the corner of its mouth.
Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wall-paper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full blown roses stained and lost through age.
I looked into his eyes which were far bigger than mine but shallower, and yellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seen through the lenses of old scratched isinglass.
A green line, frayed at the end where he broke it, two heavier lines, and a fine black thread still crimpe...
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