Read the following excerpt from the poem "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop.I thought of the coarse white fleshpacked in like feathers,the big bones and the little bones,the dramatic reds and blacksof his shiny entrails,and the pink swim-bladderlike a big peony.What feeling does her use of simile suggest?A.ApathyB.DisgustC.AweD.AffectionSUBMITarrow_backPREVIOUS

Which of the following stanzas is an example of a metaphor from Marianne Moore's "The Fish"?Opening and shutting itself like an injured fanThe barnacles which encrust the side of the waveOf the crow-blue mussel-shellsWade through black jade

In Marianne Moore's poem "The Fish", the line "Of the crow-blue mussel-shells, one keeps adjusting the ash-heaps" is an example of a metaphor comparing which two things?An injured fan to ash heapsThe mussel-shells to ash heapsThe black jade to ash heapsThe fish to ash heaps

EXERCISE 3Identify the metaphors and similes in the extract of a poem below.Write down the piece of the poem. State what figure of speech it is. Write down what is beingcompared and why.The angry voice of the windDropped to a whimperAnd fell silentLike a scolded child.The tortured waves, freed from their tormentor,Slept.With its white wings spread,The yacht sat like a seagull,Patiently contemplating its reflectionIn the polished mirrorOf the sea.

Choose the poem that is free verse.You are less an image in my mindthan a lusterI see you in gleamspale as star-light on a gray wall . . .evanescent as the reflection of a white swanshimmering in broken water.First I saw the white bear, then I saw the black;Then I saw the camel with a hump upon his back;Then I saw the grey wolf, with mutton in his maw;Then I saw the wombat waddle in the straw;Then I saw the elephant a-waving of his trunk;Then I saw the monkeys—mercy, how unpleasantly they smelt!

How does the comparison between not loving one's native tongue and a foul-smelling fish convey the poet's message?In what ways can we interpret the line, "To make our language richer ought to be our wish, the same as any mother loves to feed her young"?