For the short essay assignment you will compare Pablo Neruda’s“Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” with Elizabeth Bishop’s poem“The Fish.” I would like your analysis to focus specifically on thepoets’ use of figurative language (metaphor and simile, inparticular). How does the speaker in each of the poems feel aboutthe fish? How does the poet’s use of figurative language contributeto the poem’s tone? Your short essay needs to be 750+ words andwritten in MLA format. Your paper should consist entirely ofanalysis. Both poems are included below along with readingquestions to help guide your analysis. Ode to a Large Tuna in theMarket By Pablo Neruda & translated By Robin Robertson Here,among the market vegetables, this torpedo from the ocean depths, amissile that swam, now lying in front of me dead. Surrounded by theearth's green froth —these lettuces, bunches of carrots— only youlived through the sea's truth, survived the unknown, theunfathomable darkness, the depths of the sea, the great abyss, legrand abîme, only you: varnished black-pitched witness to thatdeepest night. Only you: dark bullet barreled from the depths,carrying only your one wound, but resurgent, always renewed, lockedinto the current, fins fletched like wings in the torrent, in thecoursing of the underwater dark, like a grieving arrow,sea-javelin, a nerveless oiled harpoon. Dead in front of me,catafalqued king of my own ocean; once sappy as a sprung fir in thegreen turmoil, once seed to sea-quake, tidal wave, now simply deadremains; in the whole market yours was the only shape left withpurpose or direction in this jumbled ruin of nature; you are asolitary man of war among these frail vegetables, your flanks andprow black and slippery as if you were still a well-oiled ship ofthe wind, the only true machine of the sea: unflawed, undefiled,navigating now the waters of death. Questions for “Ode to a LargeTuna in the Market” by Pablo Neruda 1. Compile a list of words fromthe poem that deal with weapons or warfare. 2. Annotate all of themetaphors and similes in the poem. What do you notice of thebalance of similes and metaphors? 3. What’s the subject of thepoem? 4. Who is the speaker? 5. What’s the tone of the poem? 6. Howdoes Neruda marry form and content in the poem? 7. Do you like thepoem? Why or why not? THE FISH I caught a tremendous fish and heldhim beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in acorner of his mouth. He didn't fight. He hadn't fought at all. Hehung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here andthere his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and itspattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blownroses stained and lost through age. He was speckled with barnacles,fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice, andunderneath two or three rags of green weed hung down. While hisgills were breathing in the terrible oxygen - the frighteninggills, fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly- I thoughtof the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bonesand the little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shinyentrails, and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony. I looked intohis eyes which were far larger than mine but shallower, andyellowed, the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil seenthrough the lenses of old scratched isinglass. They shifted alittle, but not to return my stare. - It was more like the tippingof an object toward the light. I admired his sullen face, themechanism of his jaw, and then I saw that from his lower lip - ifyou could call it a lip grim, wet, and weaponlike, hung five oldpieces of fish-line, or four and a wire leader with the swivelstill attached, with all their five big hooks grown firmly in hismouth. A green line, frayed at the end where he broke it, twoheavier lines, and a fine black thread still crimped from thestrain and snap when it broke and he got away. Like medals withtheir ribbons frayed and wavering, a five-haired beard of wisdomtrailing from his aching jaw. I stared and stared and victoryfilled up the little rented boat, from the pool of bilge where oilhad spread a rainbow around the rusted engine to the bailer rustedorange, the sun-cracked thwarts, the oarlocks on their strings, thegunnels- until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I letthe fish go. Elizabeth Bishop The Noonday Press Elizabeth Bishop:The Complete Poems Questions on Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish” 1.Define the following words: venerable, barnacles, rosettes,sea-lice, entrails, peony, irises, isinglass, sullen, grim, swivel,fray, bilge, thwarts, oarlock, gunnels. 2. What is the subject ofthe poem and who is the speaker? 3. Find all of the similes (acomparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”) in thepoem. Which of them, in your opinion, is the strongest and why? 4.Explain the following image: “Like medals with their ribbons/frayed and wavering,/ a five-haired beard of wisdom/ trailing fromhis aching jaw.” What does she mean by “a five-haired beard ofwisdom?” Why do you think Bishop chose to use the word “medals?” 5.Track Bishop’s use of color in the poem. Find the instances whereshe mentions specific colors. Why do you think that Bishop writes,“until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!” towards the endof the poem? 6. Bishop repeats words and phrases throughout thepoem. Choose an instance where she uses repetition and explains howit contributes to the poem. 7. Explain the tone (the speaker’sattitude about the subject matter) of the poem. Use evidence fromthe poem to support your answer 8. What, in your thinking, is thestrongest aspect of this poem? Do you like the poem? Why or whynot? 9. Fill in the outline of a fish with 15 details from thepoem. Please label each of the details. Feel free to add to thearea around the fish.