The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Gender roles, Nature, Self, Exile or expatriates, Spiritual life or spirituality, Feminism, Imagination
Form and Content
Elizabeth Bishop’s poems are noted for their precise visual details. Her vision has been called aerial, as it often presents a broad overview and then zeros in on details. The poems incorporate “thingness” more than any other quality: Bishop writes of the sea, travel, animals, clothes, sleeping, and waking up. Her poems insinuate that, through close observation of a thing, one will absorb the object or the object’s intrinsic meaning. Bishop’s descriptions of physical reality hint at a truth that cannot be seen. Her descriptions also serve as a filter...
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