Analysis of Personification and Mood

Today we are going to analyze how personification affects the mood of a literary passage. Let's look at the question.

The question asks: How does the personification of the fish in lines seventy eight through eighty eight contribute to the mood?

We have four options to consider: emotions creating a delighted mood, body language creating a lazy mood, differences creating an optimistic mood, and appearance creating a confusing mood.

To answer this, we need to understand personification, which is when human qualities are given to non-human things—in this case, fish.

Mood is the atmosphere or emotional setting of a piece of writing. We need to see how the 'human actions' of the fish make the reader feel.

Looking at typical literary examples for these specific lines, often found in poems like Elizabeth Bishop's 'The Fish', the detailed description of a fish behaving with a sense of internal happiness or victory leads to a specific mood.