"Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" paragraph

   "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" is a poem, by Pablo Neruda, written in the classical times about 2,000 or 3,000 years ago. It is about celebrating something, in this case a tuna fish, and how is was once fast, beautiful and powerful but now it's lost all of this because it's lying dead at a Market. Poetry is all about the language and in this poem, the poet really expresses this. For example, in the beginning of the second verse it says "Surrounded by the earth's green froth". The earth's green froth is implicitly referring to the vegetables in the market which also means that this is a metaphor because its transferring a quality from one thing to another. Underneath the first few lines in the second verse it says "...only you lived through the sea's truth, survived the unknown, the unfathomable darkness, the depths of the sea, the great abyss, le grand abîmé...""...to that deepest night...". In this example there are words with similar meanings repeated eight times to describe the dark, deep and mysterious sea that the fish once lived in. One more example that I found showed a lot of poetical language in just a few words was under this last line which says "...only you: varnished black-pitched witness..." This uses a metaphor, "varnished", imagery, "black-pitched", and metaphorical imagery "witness". In conclusion, this poem uses a lot of different poetical language to describe how once there was a beautiful fish that is now dead and surrounded by vegetables in an ordinary market.