Kew Gardens | Pursuing It Through Kew Gardens

In the following essay, Bishop explores Woolf's relationship between ''language and reality,'' which is seen through her use of characters and techniques.

‘‘Lucky it isn’t Friday,’’ he observed. ‘‘Why? D’you believe in luck?’’ ‘‘They make you pay sixpence on Friday.’’ ‘‘What’s sixpence anyway? Isn’t it worth sixpence?’’ ‘‘What’s ‘it’—what do you mean by ‘it’?’’ ‘‘O, anything—I mean—you know what, I mean.’’

The reader knows what the young woman means because the conversation occurs near the close of ‘‘Kew Gardens’’ and Virginia Woolf has already captured ‘‘it’’: the essence of the natural and the human world of the garden....

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