Questions of Travel (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elizabeth Bishop
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Brazil or Brazilians, Mind and body
“Questions of Travel” provided the title for Bishop's third volume of poetry, and it comes from a group of works that were written in, and take as their theme, Brazil. The poem is at once a series of very precise observations and, obliquely, a meditation on movement in place that suggests movement in the imagination. The dichotomy that is thereby set up between mind and body comes perhaps from the French philosopher René Descartes and echoes earlier literary treatments of the question of travel in works by Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Marcel Proust.
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