In "The Fish," how does the speaker seem to regard the fish that has been caught?

There is of course a
massive change that the speaker undergoes during the course of the poem with regards to his or
her feelings towards the fish, however, the other question that I have just answered for you
deals with this, so I will only focus on the way the speaker contemplates the fish at the
beginning of this excellent poem.

If anything, the fish that the speaker has
caught at the beginning of the poem is an animal that he or...