The Fish

This Old Fish

I used to spend my summers with my granddad and his boat. We would wake up early in the morning and head for the lake to go fishing. We would spend our days basting in the sun waiting patiently for that one BIG fish to catch. Finally, one day I caught the biggest fish I had ever caught before. Needless to say, when we saw it, it looked like it had struggled many hooks and we decided to throw it back in the water to let it go. In Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”, she uses t...