Based on her past experiences of cleaning fish, Bishop imagines this fish has "coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim bladder like a big peony" (42). ... Likewise, Wordsworth in his poem entitled "Lines" laments the effect that nature has upon him and states that "with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things." ...

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