More Fishing (fried or what?)

This reconfiguration Download bishop_fish.pdf of Elizabeth Bishop's The Fish presents a landscaping technique in which spatial arrangement and text interact more, creating zones and regions --visually mapping content and place in order to identify more tension between them, more of the complexity of their relationship.

Please comment on some specifics of what happens in the different mappings (consult a previous posting in eng240 fall07 limited fork blog of some section (identified according to a rationale of selection that you also identify) of The Fish. It should be possible to refer to the section you select as an allness.

--Has this fish been fried yet or what?
If not, what's happening to it?

Comments

[Dillon]

I don't think this fish is fried. At least not in the sense of death. I think the reconfiguration creates suspense, something the original does not do. The pauses and spaces in the new version are dramatic and create, to me, an element of spoken word poetry - which tickles me! I would love to hear this poem with some passion, as the ones we read in class were not quite...filled.

[Dillon]

I don't think this fish is fried. At least not in the sense of death. I think the reconfiguration creates suspense, something the original does not do. The pauses and spaces in the new version are dramatic and create, to me, an element of spoken word poetry - which tickles me! I would love to hear this poem with some passion, as the ones we read in class were not quite...filled.