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Elizabeth Bishop's Poem "The Weed", 2001.
Examines Elizabeth Bishop's poem "The Weed" through a psychoanalyst's perspective.
1,576 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 51.95
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This essay reviews Elizabeth Bishops poem "The Weed" and explores how it demonstrates her longing for parental figures in childhood, their absence, and the effect it has on her and will have on her children.
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Elizabeth Bishop, 2002.
This paper discusses how and why the poet Elizabeth Bishop can write about the serious side of poverty in a humorous way.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper analyzes Elizabeth Bishop's poems "Pink Dog" and "Filling Station". The author points out some of the humorous devices she uses. The paper concludes with an analysis of what the overall effect of her technique.
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The Life and Works of Elizabeth Bishop, 2003.
This paper discusses the poet Elizabeth Bishop?s life and works, from her birth in 1911 until her death in 1979.
1,370 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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The paper recounts the story of Elizabeth Bishop's life, from her early beginnings in New England living with her grandparents, through the ups and downs of her professional career as a poet and her turbulent private life, fraught with unstable relationships and drinking problems. The paper also touches on the works she published during her lifetime as well as the awards and honors she received.
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"After graduating, Elizabeth moved to New York, where she started to launch her literary career. She was writing and being introduced to some editors who started to request poems from her. She also spent a couple of years in Europe, living with Louise Crane, her first partner. In 1938, both Bishop and Crane fell in love with the simplicity of a small town called Key West, in Florida, where they bought a house and established their lives. Even living there, they still had contact with the literary circle of New York, and frequently received writers and artists in their house."
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Elizabeth Bishop: Seeking a Deeper Meaning, 1999.
An examination of the works of Elizabeth Bishop with focus on two poems "The Moose" and "The Unbeliever".
1,565 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 51.95
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Essay on Elizabeth Bishop with works cited from her poems "The Moose" and "The Unbeliever". The author examines her writing style and technique and her use of imagery.
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"Lesbian, artist, poet, teacher, traveler, and translator are all words that can be used to describe Elizabeth Bishop. The aspect of her life that she is best known for is her poetry. In many of her works, Bishop uses complex symbolism to inspire the reader to think deeply, and experiences from her own life in detailed imagery so the reader can picture what she is thinking. Two poems are prime example of this, ?The Moose? and ?The Unbeliever.?
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Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art", 2009.
An examination of the theme and message of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art."
892 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "One Art", discussing specifically the theme and message of the poem. The paper shows how, by effectively incorporating poetic elements, Bishop artistically compensates through her poetic division of instructions, commands and examples, revealing that over time one may learn to cope with the loss of a loved one.
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"In the last stanza, Bishop's focus changes from material possessions and places to a personal loss, and her attitude or tone changes noticeably as well. Bishop sympathetically reveals, \Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied\ (16, 17). Through this image of memorable traits, Bishop emotionally conveys a heartfelt loving relationship that has been lost in the past, and she tries to hide or bury that loss by putting these memories in parentheses. It is evident that Bishop is trying very hard to detach herself from pain and the loss of a lover, but her heart is still attached. Within these lines, Bishop reinforces the idea that love is a part of human nature, and true love is something that seems irreplaceable. Through Bishop's poem, one is reminded that loss is hard to deal with, but it is a process that we all must face."
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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetry, 2008.
A review of the homosexual messages in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry.
1,705 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 0 sources, APA, $ 55.95
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The paper examines Elizabeth Bishop's poems "Sonnet," "Song for the Rainy Season," "The Fish," and "Rainbow" and asserts that they all reveal a hidden "gay code." On the surface, the poems appear simple, but underneath they present themes related to homosexuality, such as the desire for social acceptance, emotional confusion and ambivalence, and gay pride. The paper explains how Bishop's poems tacitly declare that gays are human just like everyone else and that they demonstrate Bishop's gay pride as well as implicitly ask society to change its attitude about homosexuality.
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"The first section begins with the word "caught," and the other section begins with the word "freed." The diction of the first section starkly contrasts that of the second section. At first, Bishop uses words, such as "divided," "caught," and "wobbling" to illustrate the creature's state of emotional ambivalence, captivity, and confusion. However, in the second section, Bishop uses words, such as "broken," "running," and "gay." Bishop's diction in the second part of the poem shows that the creature has defied the constraints placed on him earlier. He has "broken" free from the "bubble/ in the spirit level." When he does this, he no longer feels "divided." Instead, he feels "gay" as Bishop describes in the final line of the poem. Interestingly, the creature could represent Elizabeth Bishop because, when she states that the creature is "running away," this act parallels Elizabeth Bishop's decision to escape a homophobic America and move to a more liberal Brazil."
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Elizabeth Bishop?s ?The Fish?, 2004.
This paper analyzes the poem, ?The Fish?, by Elizabeth Bishop, a poet admired for her vivid, descriptive poetry.
1,045 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that Bishop?s observation in ?The Fish? not only creates an image of the fish for the reader, but also expands the scope of the poet?s appreciation for the fish. The author points out that, in this narrative poem, Bishop uses rhetorical and sound devices, as well as tone, metaphor, symbolism, personification, simile, and imagery. The paper relates that her great attention to detail allows us to understand the fish as Bishop does and, as a result, to understand why she sets the fish free.
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"These lines illustrate the poet?s ability to capture details about the simplest and smallest of things. The poet utilizes the technique of hyperbole here by stating that the fish?s eyes were bigger than her own were. Her intention is to make us sense the life she became aware of when she looked into the fish?s eyes, which ultimately makes her feel sympathy for the fish. The action of looking into the fish?s eyes is also powerful in that it allows the poet to personify the fish. We also discover the poet?s use of an apostrophe here, which is emphasized by the poet?s looking into the fish?s eyes."
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Elizabeth Bishop's Use of Format in the Poem "Sestina", 2000.
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This paper shows how Bishop's poem "Sestina" is a sestina in itself and follows the traditional format of the French lyric style, which results in a continuous maze of words that does not end, strengthening the author's theme of perpetual life cycles.
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""September rain falls on the house/ in the failing light..." is how the poem begins. In the first two lines, the text has already made two references to the ceasing of a natural occurrence. September is the start of autumn and the end of summer. The descending sun signifies the close of another day. The probability that the sun will rise tomorrow, and that another August will eventually come, makes these two events recurring cycles of nature. The changing of the seasons and the rotation of the earth are inevitable laws of the universe."
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Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, 1991.
A comparison of the poetry, themes and philosophies of life, emphasizing poets' mutual influence. Including symbolism, imagery and personal relationship.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 10 sources, $ 119.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine selected poems of Elizabeth Bishop and to discuss them in connection with selected poems of Robert Lowell. The plan of the research will be to set forth the context in which connections between the work of the poets can be clarified, to discuss poems of Bishop that lend themselves to explication according to consistency of imagery or theme, and then to explore poems of Lowell that illuminate or contrast with Bishop's style and content. Evidence will show that there is a consistency in attempts by both of them to articulate a world view and poetic vision in the form of conversation, despite apparent differences in formal style and subject matter.
No discussion of the poetry of Bishop and Lowell would be complete without the knowledge that they were lifelong friends...."
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Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and CK Williams, 2000.
An examination of the three poets' use of nature, styles, techniques and themes.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 31.95
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Nature is a source of inspiration for the poet, and nature is used for its imagery, for its symbolic meaning, and for its role as a powerful force in human life. Nature was elevated to a high position by the Romantic poets, but poets before that time used nature as well. Many poets show a particular affinity for nature, tending to delve into it as an example of fertility, a connection with the infinite, a symbol of human sexuality, and so on.
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"Nature is a source of inspiration for the poet, and nature is used for its imagery, for its symbolic meaning, and for its role as a powerful force in human life. Nature was elevated to a high position by the Romantic poets, but poets before that time used nature as well. Many poets show a particular affinity for nature, tending to delve into it as an example of fertility, a connection with the infinite, a symbol of human sexuality, and so on. Poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore, and C.K. Williams show an affinity for nature and develop images of nature by means of a strong sense of poetic language. Each shows ways in which form mirrors content, reflecting in some fashion an organic sense of both nature and language, and each also shows a certain self-consciousness about being a poet and being linked to a poetic tradition."
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Nature in Literature, Drama and Poetry, 2002.
This paper explores how nature is portrayed in different literary works by such authors as Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jack London, Patrick Meyer, Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper compares and contrast how nature is portrayed in a variety of literary works. The works included in this paper are Elizabeth Bishop's ?The Fish,? Ralph Waldo Emerson's ?Nature,? Oliver Wendell Holmes's ?The Chambered Nautilus,? and Patrick Meyer?s ?K2," Jack London's "To Build A Fire," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, Or Life in the Woods" and William Wordsworth''s ?The World is Too Much With Us." Some of the topics discussed include cruelty in nature, man's relationship with nature, the different elements of nature, the Romantic and Transcendentalist view of nature and the true communing of individual soul with nature. The paper concludes with the author tying all of these topics together by illustrating the similarities between human nature and nature itself.
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"Emerson is most concerned about how Emerson sees nature, and would like to see nature better as an American. Emerson does not consider that while observing nature everyone is not only changed internally by nature, whether by cold or by beauty, but also that the observer changes nature itself, even in as simple as something as walking through the perfect and untrodden snow. Just as animal life impacts and is impacted by nature; human beings exist a part of nature and are subject to natural forces. These forces include but are not limited to cold, illness, injury, death, birth, and seasonal extremes. The metaphor of the only observing eyeball denies such an impact."
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"The Fish", 2002.
A review of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "The Fish" using technique as described in Tom Furniss and Michael Bath's "Reading Poetry".
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This paper uses Tom Furniss and Michael Bath's book, "Reading Poetry" to explore intertextuality, discourse, history, the poetic situation, and poetic closure to do a systemic analysis of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "The Fish."
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Poetry Comparison, 2004.
Compares and contrasts Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Filling Station", with Dana Gioia's poem, "California Hills in August".
1,299 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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In this paper, the writer examines the tone, the meaning, and the themes of Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Filling Station", and Dana Gioia's poem, "California Hills in August", while also comparing and contrasting them to each other.
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"Throughout history authors have used their works to convey messages and draw emotions from their readers. The poetry genre is perhaps the most emotion filled style of literature there is. Poetry allows the writer to draw on the deepest feelings and thoughts of those who read the works and from each poem the reader draws life based on their own past experiences. One of the most exciting elements of poetry is the fact that the reader takes the words and then responds with emotion based on the experiences they have had in life. Filling Station by Elizabeth Bishop and California Hills in August by Dana Gioia are classic examples of how poetry can affect each person in a different manner."
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Nature in Poetry, 2002.
Shows how poets Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and C.K. Williams incorporate the imagery of nature into their works.
971 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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Nature is a source of inspiration for the poet and nature is used for its imagery, for its symbolic meaning and for its role as a powerful force in human life. Many poets show a particular affinity for nature, tending to delve into it as an example of fertility, a connection with the infinite, a symbol of human sexuality, and so on. The paper examines how poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and C.K. Williams show an affinity for nature and develop images of nature by means of a strong sense of poetic language. It explores how each shows ways in which form mirrors content, reflecting in some fashion an organic sense of both nature and language.
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"Marianne Moore's metrical and linguistic complexity is evident in her poem "The Fish." The title of the poem bleeds directly into the first line to create an opening sentence: "The Fish/ wade/ through black fade." Moore often uses this technique to make the title part of the poem and to set it apart as a symbolic image of all that will follow. Similarly, the end of each stanza remains open, bleeding directly into the beginning of the next stanza. the entire poem is therefore interconnected, as if part of a larger unit. Critic Charles Molesworth identifies the poem as one of Moore's more complicated and says it shows a particular interest of hers: "Moore was very interested in the intersection between nature and culture" (Burgess)."
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"The Map", 2005.
This paper discusses the poetic style of Elizabeth Bishop in her poem "The Map".
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This paper explains that Elizabeth Bishop, who died in 1979 and was one of the most honored poets of her time, illustrates the cold and frozen North of her Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia heritage in her poem "The Map". The author points out that parsing a poem is like dissecting a butterfly to see what makes it flutter: "The Map" is the poet's guide for our imagination; no more; no less. The paper relates that Bishop's physical frail frame expanded in her mind and captured the essence of a land about which she could only dream, but "The Map" is no romantic fantasy rather a shrewd, sparse, straightforward account of the land of the North.
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"Poets are, it must be argued, different from novelists or scientists or philosophers, who tend to try to surpass one another. Poets stand alone. They write what they see and what they feel. They owe no allegiance to history. Only the history of their own lives, as it invests their memories, as the Newfoundland landscape must have stirred memories in Elizabeth Bishop. Her voyages are in her poetry. Her ticket stubs are images, torn apart and repaired."
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