Elizabeth Bishop

The fish:

themes: Survival, epiphany, nature, connection and hope.

poetic technique:

Metaphor: she is the fish, she uses the poetic technique to highlight her themes and he similarity's she shares with the fish.

Simile:(comparison using like as or than) “his brown skin hung in strips like antient wallpaper and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper”

Sestina

Themes: nature, insight, childhool, phycological homelessness

Poetic techneque:

six stanzas of six with six words repeared every stanza

(house, grandmother, child, stove almanac, rain)