Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Fish Commentary

In this poem the fisherman meets a fish that reflects his life. The fish had gone through many things in his life that the fisherman can relate to. The older people are the more experienced they are in life. When people get old we can see aging in our skin and hair. For a fish the signs of aging are in their lips. The lips of the fish in the poem have "hung five old pieces of fish-line." In the poem the author say the fish had a “five –haired beard of wisdom” this compares the fishes’ five hooks to a beard that a man with wisdom would have. These two have the hardships of life in common. 

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