Compare and contrast "The Fish" by Mary Oliver, and "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop. Consider the tone, voice, form, use of figurative language, symbol...

Your
question has many parts to it, but I can, unfortunately, answer only one. I have selected the
last part:

Are both women reaching the same conclusions or different ones
based on their experiences with the fish?

The response that I have for each
poem is based primarily on the different experiences of each woman in catching her
fish.

Oliver's poem lists the physical attributes of the fish, and discusses
how the oxygen is so deadly for it. It describes rainbows, which I assume refer to the light
refracting off of its shiny skin. However, the speaker conquers the fish, kills, cleans, and
eats it so that they become one. Oliver seems to describe how the death of the fish nourishes
the speaker. But she also addresses the shared experience the fish and the person both have in
the pain of this "mysterious" thing called life. The poem left me feeling that the
fish was a victim, somehow a sacrifice for man's betterment.

Bishop's poem
also has wonderful. She describes the danger of the...