Questions of the Literature "The Fish"

Please read Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/fish-2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

Respond:

1. What pictures does a reader create while reading the work of literature?
2. Where in the literature does a reader create these pictures?
3. What characters or objects are symbolic (stand for other things)? For example, a rose may stand for love, and a thorn may stand for a painful aspect of love.
4. What do the images in the work of literature suggest to a reader?