The Moose (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: New England, Death or dying, Canada or Canadians, Sick persons, Health, Old age or elderly people, Animals, Joy or sorrow, Weather, Buses
“The Moose” is a careful description of a bus journey through Nova Scotia. Its twenty-eight six-line stanzas employ an irregular pattern of slant rhyme which links two, sometimes four, end words in each stanza. Through most of the first half of the poem, the bus's journey is described in terms of the landscape that the bus traverses. The riders are scarcely mentioned at all. Instead, readers see the changing scenery. The bus moves from “narrow provinces/ of fish and bread and tea” past the Bay of Fundy, with its enormous tides, and then past the mud flats and the farmhouses and...
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