Bishop LC poems- The Fish

How does Bishop describe the fish she caught? (The Fish)

(a)  

What surprised Bishop about the catch? (The Fish)

He hadn't ...

(a)  

She described the fish as being battered and ...? (The Fish)

• venerable

• vulnerable

• vulgar

• vinegary

The first feature she describes is the fishes ...?

• skin

• eyes

• scales

• innards

His brown skin hung in strips like...? (The Fish)

(a)  

He was speckled with (a)   fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea- lice. (The Fish)

While his gills were breathing in the (a)  

—the (a)   gills,

fresh and crisp with blood,

that can cut so badly— (The Fish)

I thought of the (a)   flesh. (The Fish)

...the coarse white flesh packed in (a)   (The Fish)