Analyze "The Fish," identifying its main theme and showing how it functions in the poem as a whole.

To determine
the theme of a poem, you first
read the entire work just to get a sense of what the author is
communicating.
Then you look for a universal idea, something that people could understand
and
relate to no matter where they live or who they are. One thing you have
to keep in mind is that
the theme to anything is largely a subjective matter;
if you asked ten people for the theme to
this poem, youd probably get ten
different answers.

After reading , I would
say the theme
is something like Sometimes we find beauty and value in places we dont

expect.

Once youve identified your theme, you want to be able to
support it
with evidence from the poem. Lets look at it.

At first the speaker tells us
that she caught a tremendous fish. Thats a
pretty...