The Fish Figurative Language

In The Fish, the beginning of the poem establishes Bishop’s keen insight and observations when she first caught glance of the hideous fish. But towards the end of the poem, the beautiful descriptions she employed about the fish become an epiphany she has, which is that she has mercy on the fish, realizing that it survived numerous struggles against adversity. There shouldn’t be a drastic fine line in regards to a certain quality that a poem possesses, as that takes away from the goal of the poet and adds more stress to write a poem that is contained within the fine lines of form, poetic devices, etc. The qualities a poem should possess are rhythm (to create a musical effect through repetition of sounds), figurative language (to give the poem