Poetic Techniques

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This paper looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and James Merril. The poems chosen here include Bishop's "Filling Station", "At the Fishhouses" and "Lost in Translation". From Merril, the writer looks at "Willowware Cup" and "Voices from the Other World". The paper includes excerpts from the poems themselves.

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"In "Voices From the Other World," we see the confessionalist poet emerge. this poem reveals how the poet experimented with the Ouija board. The poet describes for us the teacup circling "lazily about" (2) on the game board. The poet tells us an objective story about an engineer who died of cholera in Cairo when he was 22 years old.
Then, the poet brings us into his immediate world when the board tell him, "Flee this house . . . You have no choice" (19-20). Shaken, but not moved, the poet does not flee the house and subsequently grows "nonchalant/Towards the other world" ."

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