The Fish part 1 by Elizabeth Bishop Flashcards
“I caught a _________ fish”
i caught a tremendous fish
“and ___ him beside the ___”
“and held him beside the boat”
“Half out of the _____, with my ____”
half out of the water, with my hook
“___ in a corner of his ____”
“fast in a corner of his mouth”
“he didn’t _____”
“he didn’t fight”
“he hadn’t _____ at all”
“He hadn’t fought at all”
“He ____ a grunting ____”
“He hung a grunting weight”
“________ and venerable”
“battered and velnerable”
“and homely. Here and ____”
“and homely. Here and there “
“His ____ skin hung in _____”
“His brown skin hung in strips”
“like ancient _________”
“like ancient wallpaper”
“and its _______ of _______ brown”
“and its pattern of darker brown”
“was like ______”
“was like wallpaper”
“shapes like full-blown _____”
“Shapes like full-blown roses
“_______ and lost through age”
“stained and lost through age”
“He was speckled with ________”
“He was speckled with barnacles”
“fine ________ of lime”
“Fine rosettes of lime”
“and _______”
“and infested”
“With tiny white ___-____”
“With tiny white sea-lice”
“and __________ two or three”
And underneath two or three”
“rags of green _____ hung down”
“Rags of green weed hung down”
“While his ____ were ________ in”
While his gills were breathing in”
“the terrible _______”
“the terrible oxygen”
“-the ________ gills”
“-The frightening gills”
“fresh and _____ with _____”
“fresh and crisp with blood”
“that can cut so _____-“
“that can cut so badly-“
“I thought of the ______ white flesh”
“I thought of the coarse white flesh”
“______ in like feathers”
“packed in like feathers”
“the big _____ and the little ______”
“the big bones and the little bones”
“the ______ reds and blacks”
“the dramatic reds and blacks”
“of his shiny ______”
“of his shiny entrails”
“and the pink swim-______”
“and the pink swim-bladder”
“like a big ______”
“like a big peony”
“I looked into his ____”
“I looked into his eyes”
“which were far _____ than ____”
“which were far larger than mine”
Quote the first 5 lines of the poem
"I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of the water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight."
Quote the second 5 lines of the poem
"He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. here and there his brown skin hung in strips"
Quote the third 5 lines of the poem
"like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shades like full-blown roses stained and lost through age."
Quote the fourth 5 lines of the poem
"He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice, and underneath two or three"
Quote the fifth 5 lines of the poem
"rags of green weed hung down. While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen -the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood,"
Quote the sixth 5 lines of the poem
"that cut so badly- I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks"
Quote the seventh 5 lines of the poem
"of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony. I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine"
Quote the full poem
"I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of the water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shades like full-blown roses stained and lost through age. He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice, and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down. While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen -the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood, that cut so badly- I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony. I looked into his eyes which were far larger than mine"
