Described
with astounding deatail, 's "tremendous fish" may well be a Northern Pike (also known
as Pike-perch) who has been most likely been caught with steel leaders and treble hooks that yet
hand from his old lip after he managed to break the lines. In the description of this brown
fish who is so old that barnacles have grown on him, the poet employs several figures of speech,
among them similes and metaphors and synedoche.
Two metaphors that are
essential to understanding the poem...
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