The Fish and Filling Station

Elizabeth Bishop uses many sensory details in these two poems. Sensory details are evocative words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the five senses—sight, sound, touch, hearing, and smell. Review the poems and list the sensory details that you find and the sense that each appeals to. Write a poem of two or more stanzas in which you describe a place, an object, or an animal or other living creature. Use at least three sensory details in your poem. Model your details after those Bishop uses.