SOMETHING IS" FISHY"

IN poem the "FISH" by Elizabeth Bishop she uses a great deal of imagery and symbolism to convey how in life we are just beat down yet, through wisdom, and overcoming obsacles in our life triumph prevails. Bishop actually takes me there on that fishing trip, I really felt as though i was in that boat with the fisherman and in essence can equate some of my many upheaval moments and triumphs to that of the narrator and the fish. There was something fishy about the symbolic meaning of the fish hooks left in the mouth of the fish. Bishop symbolizes them with medals or trophies that the fish endured throughout its endevors. This was no fish tale but an intriguing poem!!!!!!