Grief, the direct question of lifeDuring the process of growing up, we are taught to believe that life is relatively colorful and rich; However, if this point of view is correct, how can we explain why literature illustrates the negative and painful feeling of life? So, grief is inevitable; as it increases, we cannot hide it. From the moment we are born into the world, people suffer from different kinds of sorrows. Even though we believe that there are so many happy things around us, these things break our hearts. The poems “Advice from My Father” by Carol Ann Davis, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop convey the heartache of growing up, pretending to be sad, and even life itself . The poem "Advice fromChildhood pain, lover's betrayal, countless secrets settle in during life, which absolutely cannot be shared and understood by others. Are we gradually moving to become the dead man? For being rather sensitive people especially, the only way to encourage them to stay in the world is to kill some of their nerves and pretend to be as happy as the others. secret sorrows are so many to hide, the sea of ​​sorrow will drown them, but they always pretend to be happy The last poem "The Fish" illustrates the sorrow of life itself. , everything about the fish is depicted vividly and dramatically The poet seems to share the same pain with the fish observing the scene and appreciates the details as if he were appreciating a work of art The poet lets go of the fish because. that he is totally affected by the process between life and death; she loves life but in the meantime, she is deeply hurt by life. In the poem, the fish has no fear of him; the desire to live is in the moving and tragic details in the face of