Which three lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" show that the fish has given up struggling for survival aft

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Maurinko [17]

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Which three lines in this excerpt from Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" show that the fish has given up struggling for survival aft

er living a hard life?

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kolbaska11 [484] · Answer 1 · 2022-06-18T10:33:41+03:00

kolbaska11 [484]3 years ago

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Answer:

He didn’t fight.

He hadn’t fought at all.

battered and venerable

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Nimfa-mama [501] · Answer 2 · 2022-06-18T08:06:00+03:00

In the following, you will find the excerpts from "Elizabeth Bishop's" The fish in that very situation:

"I caught a tremendous fish, and held him beside the boat, half out of 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,"