Nov 12, 2009
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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