Poetry – Elizabeth Bishop Aoife O’Driscoll www.aoifesnotes.com Elizabeth Bishop – Brief Biography Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911. Her father died when she was a baby‚ and his death caused Bishop’s mother to have a mental breakdown. When Bishop was five her mother was permanently institutionalised and was never reunited with her daughter. Bishop’s maternal grandparents took care of her and she spent her early childhood with them on their farm in Nova Scotia. Bishop was very
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The Waiting Room When I was seventeen and in my senior year at high school‚ my mom had surgery to remove a malignant brain tumor. After the tumor was discovered‚ I prayed and cried myself to sleep every night. That spring I learned a little about death and about how I wanted to live my life. The doctors had decided that my mom needed to undergo intense radiation therapy which consisted of twenty minutes of radiation directed at the cancerous area‚ five days a week for six weeks. My mom could not
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Elizabeth Bishop Bishop’s poetry changes everyday scenes to vivid imagery. Bishop has a keen eye for detail as she converts the visual images that she sees into words of poetic language that creates vivid images in the reader’s mind. The poet’s powers of observation and description is evident in the poem “Filling Station”. The poem starts with a striking clear image of her entire surroundings: “Oh‚ but it is dirty!”. The image of an ‘overall black translucency’ conveys the picture of the overwhelming
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a person who has had significant impact on you‚ describe that influence. Title: The Waiting Room. White! The white walls‚ white sheets and white fluorescent light pierce my eyes; I hear the distant beep from the strange machine attached to the very still body of my uncle on the bed. I hate hospitals. Not because of the strong smell of disinfectant that infiltrates your nostrils or the tension in the waiting area where everyone there wears anxious looks with over a million prayers on their lips
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Sestina In ’Sestina’ Elizabeth Bishop tells a painful story of a grandmother and a child living with loss. The story‚ set in a kitchen on a rainy late afternoon in September‚ features two actions: having tea and drawing. Although the woman tries to remain cheerful and thus protect the child‚ her tears give away her sadness. The child‚ meanwhile‚ not only observes these troubling signs but also draws a house that makes her proud. By the final nine lines of the poem‚ a surprising thing
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I learned that Bishop excels at taking the mundane and transforming it to something beautiful. Her poems are so beautifully written that one does not merely read her poetry‚ instead one can see her subject matter right in front of them. It would be easy to dismiss Bishop’s poetry as merely a descriptive look at the routine but Bishop’s poetry all holds a deeper meaning that really only becomes apparent when you look at Bishop’s own life. After losing her father at an early age and her mother’s institutionalization
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Elizabeth Bishop: Annotated Bibliography Lowell‚ Robert “Blooms Major Poets” Broomall‚ PA Chelsea House Publishers 2002 TCC Library‚ Arlington TX. March 26‚ 2013 Robert Lowell article from Harold Bloom’s book in the review North and South provides insight on his influence in poetry in his generation. Lowell‚ who was to become Bishop’s close friend‚ describes the symbolic and rhetorical patterns that many of her early poems share‚ and goes on to locate Bishop within
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Elizabeth Bishop’s “Sestina” is a captivating poem filled with depictions that take the reader to the valleys of sadness and unresolved grief. The poem symbolizes the dynamics of an ongoing life as well as the powers of memory and an unsettled sense of loss. Beyond presenting sadness‚ the poem conveys the inter-generational challenges posed by a sense of loss and unresolved grief. The writer draws the reader into the poem through her use of personification of inanimate items and associating human
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Hong Kong Institute of Education Literature in English III: Poetry Final Paper on The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop Kum Yuen Man‚ Gladys (SID: 11047405) BA (Language Studies – English major) Elizabeth Bishop was born in Massachusetts in 1911 and had a harsh childhood. She lost her parents when she was very young and had to move from place to place to live with her grandparents. However‚ Bishop seldom includes explicit accounts of her personal life in her works. Instead‚ she focuses on her
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Elizabeth Bishop is an intriguing and enigmatic poet whose poetic voice is distinct and individualistic. In many ways Derek Mahon ’s assessment of Bishop as "the shy perfectionist with her painter ’s eye"‚ is her most fitting and apt legacy. Bishop ’s work is replete with vivid imagery and striking metaphors and the keenness of her perception of the world around her is remarkable. Her poetry is carefully wrought often combining rich and detailed imagery with thematic indirectness. In my opinion‚
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