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Elizabeth Bishop in Context
Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators, this volume addresses the biographical and literary inception of Bishop's originality, from her formative upbringing in New England and Nova Scotia to long residences in New York, France, Florida and Brazil. Her poetry, prose, letters, translations and visual art are analysed in turn, followed by detailed studies of literary movements such as surrealism and modernism that influenced her artistic development. Bishop's encounters with nature, music, psychoanalysis and religion receive extended treatment, likewise her interest in dreams and humour. Essays also investigate the impact of twentieth-century history and politics on Bishop's life writing, and what it means to read Bishop via eco-criticism, postcolonial theory and...
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ABSTRACT: Elizabeth Bishop, an American poet and influential painter, marked her presence in both the fields. Formerly a poet of her individual style, posthumously acknowledged as a painter and became the matter of reference and consideration. She made good friends like Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Mary McCarthy etc. genuinely encouraged and enhance her writing skills. Separation from the family, isolation from the native surroundings and the feeling of alienation became the themes of Bishop’s writings. Her impressions on canvas are equally individual. Bishop, paintings are the record of her travels. Bishop painted in water colour, ink medium and gouache technique. Bishop was self-deprecating about her paintings. There is a certain “primitiveness” in her lines or works. Her compositions are focusing on the subjects primarily. Foreground and backgrounds are painted in unique style. Bishop’s colour scheme was bright and always soothing to eyes. Her painting are mainly landscapes, seascape and still-life objects. Bishop held a scene as a painting in her poems with picturesque quality and her paintings reflects numerous words and seems like a rhythmic poem. KEY WORDS: Primitiveness, gouache, ink-medium, self-deprecating, self-exposure, feminist, composition, foreground, background, picturesque, landscape, seascape, still-life.
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Elizabeth Bishop is known to be the poetess of travel and landscapes. She is also known to master reticence. Poetry is her subtle means of curing her agonized self. The poetess invents some poetic devices to implicitly hide in her poems. She is always present behind the scene of the poems. Besides poetry, travel is another conscious means of dissolving herself in new places which serve as a medium for avoiding the settlement of grief. Yet, the full impact of travel is never reached except through poetry. Apart from the conscious mechanisms she applies in her poems and life intentionally aiming at self-recovery, there are other means of what is psychologically known as unconscious self-defense; i.e. other unconscious means of curing the self. During the process of “re-writing” the self through poetry, the poetess is naturally aided by her memory and imagination. Critics agree that Bishop is obviously gifted by cartographic imagination. This idiosyncratic type of imagination allows the poetess to perceive of any scene before her as a map on which she locates herself on; besides, it allows the poetess to conceive of a wide map, or, net connecting all human beings. Thereby, she connects herself to the world.
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Elizabeth Bishop: Moments of Discovery & Controlled Writing Style
“moments of discovery and a carefully controlled writing style characterised the poetry of elizabeth bishop.” .
Discuss with reference to the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop on your course. Elizabeth Bishop’s poetry is more intricate than it would appear on initial reading. I admire her ability to find extraordinary aspects in every day experiences. She uses a combination of precise, imaginative description and thought-provoking insight. Bishop’s unique eye for detail and original imagery give her poetry a strong visual quality, drawing the reader into the world she describes. What makes her poetry particularly appealing is her desire to probe beneath the surface. These moments of insight, often dramatic and always interesting, help us to better understand the world in which we live. Bishop’s poetry is rooted in her personal experience, which adds another dimension her already deeply insightful poetry. I will discuss “The Fish”, “Filling Station”, “The Bight”, “First Death In Nova Scotia” and “Sestina”.
Found this to be a brilliant answer, would a typical Leaving Cert Poem question tend to be this long though?
Hi. This answer is approx. 1900 words. It is indeed very long, perhaps 1.5 times longer than a typical answer worthy of an A1. The length is preserved to showcase the points for the purpose of learning. Best of luck!
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