extreme imagery (Florence Welsh).” In the poem The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop, Bishop uses intense imagery to present an experience that conveys a message of struggle. The colossal amount of imagery used by Bishop allows the readers to take on her feats and accomplishments as their own. In The Fish Bishop describes her experience of catching an old fish, this experience led her to a discovery that inspired her to throw the fish back into the water. The fish served as a lesson for her, it exemplified something