Essays on Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop is known for her creative style of writing that draws on the emotions of the readers. The author’s works have been described as thought provoking and extensive and these poems have survived decades after her death. Most of the poet’s works, including “Roosters” carry an underlined meaning and creates a high level of power and uncertainty. Literally, the poems deal with biblical story of the Peter and his denial that he was one of Jesus’ disciples. In the Bible, Jesus told Peter that he would deny any knowledge of him trice before the rooster’s ...

The XX century is one of those centuries, which was filled with various events: cultural, political and social ones. It was a time full of emotions: from the tears to the laughter. It was a time of rebel, a time of a freedom to be born again. It was a time of changes. Such character of the century has put its influence on the culture, especially art: the paintings, the photographs, the poetry, etc. Exactly the poetry, as an irreplaceable element of the world’s culture, is showing the emotional side of XX century’s people. It is a ...

We Real Cool

The three videos watched are The Sentence by Anna Akhmatova and read by Nancy Narsessian, The Emigrant Irish by Eavan Boland and read by Stephen Murphy and We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks and read by John Ulrich. Out of these three, I liked most We Real Cool mainly because it vividly portrayed the reality faced by the youths once they went for the option to drop out of school. The poem was written in the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement. The poet further describes the lives of uneducated youths. She lists out the illegal activities they partook ...

Psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud is a psychic form of literary criticism that has found its way to literature. Research attempts to link the psychoanalysis to the author or an interesting character in a piece of literature. The aims and objectives of the criticism revolve around therapeutic nuances that are very similar to the work of Sigmund Freud, Interpretation of Dreams. The major aspects that emerge as critical in the analysis dwells on thoughts and behaviors that fictional characters exhibit. In poetry, the analysis attempts an outlook of a poem’s structure. According to Jacques Lacan, the language structure and the unconscious stream ...

Annotated Bibliography

A verbal piece of music that serves the purpose to expose experiences, emotions or thoughts in a bright and creative way, setup by literacy technique variables including rhyme, meter and metaphor and implicate the language for its sound and evocative influence is referred to as a poem and the writer of a poem is known as poet. The scholar after analyzing the significance of poems in the literature discusses articles on the poems briefly in order to extract results for the required awareness and benefits of society. The scholar exerts extensive research efforts on the articles on the poems to find ...

“The Fish” talks about the interesting journey of the narrator who at first was just out to catch a fish, but ended up developing a deep understanding of nature and life through the fish. With the use of vivid imagery and abundant description, Elizabeth Bishop took the readers to the past struggles of the fish in order to stay alive, how its physical disfigurement reflecting those struggles translated into images of beauty and victory, and how these mental pictures elicited respect and admiration from the narrator.

True to its title, the narrator begins telling the story by talking about catching a fish.

I caught a tremendous fishand held him beside the boathalf out of water, with my hookfast ...

Poetry is one of the most versatile and most potent forms by which human emotions seep out into cultural consciousness. Poets, through verse, elucidate human experience and attempt to convey their thoughts, feelings, and desires in the pursuit of artistry. And yet, happiness and optimism are not the only avenues which are explored through the art of poetry. For some, depression, loneliness, and regret are also potent sources of inspiration. In this regard, the transition between the poetic and artistic movement of modernism and postmodernism is fertile ground. The key figures here are Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert ...

There is a connection between the poetic styles of Theodore Roethke and Elizabeth Bishop. The two are influential poets notable for their styles of poetic presentations. Bishop professed a strong misogyny for the established feminist movement of her time. The connection that existed between her and Roethke revolved around the confessional style of poetry. this philosophy in poetry involved using a style of writing that avoided revealing any personal aspect of her life. While Roethke made many confessions, Bishop avoided this confession. In one of her works “In the Village,” she uses a third person observer, which is similar to that of Roethke. ...

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Readings: The poems used for the lesson plan are namely: “America” by Claude McKay, “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop and “Coal” by Audre Lore. Objective of lesson: Psychological criticism in literature observes the text and the author. The symbolism used in the writing is scrutinized and observed as workings of the human mind that are for interpretation. These writings are analyzed according to the author and the characters of the literary piece. This kind of approach uses theories of those in the field of psychology. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis is often used in literary criticism. His theories are ...

The relationship between man and animal is often explored in literary works, and poetry is no exception. In Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," a man catches a fish, but after scrutinizing him carefully and noting the array of fish hooks already in the fish's jaw, the fisherman releases it back into the water. D.H. Lawrence's "Snake" depicts a man at a water trough, who soon finds a snake drinking with him. After considering what others would say about him not killing the snake, he finds he both respects the snake and misses it when he is gone. In both works, the speakers have feelings of ...

The relationship between man and animal is often explored in literary works, and poetry is no exception. In Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish," a man catches a fish, but after scrutinizing him carefully and noting the array of fish hooks already in the fish's jaw, the fisherman releases it back into the water. D.H. Lawrence's "Snake" depicts a man at a water trough, who soon finds a snake drinking with him. After considering what others would say about him not killing the snake, he finds he both respects the snake and misses it when he is gone. In both works, the speakers have feelings of ...

Elizabeth Bishop wrote her poem “One Art” during the tumultuous times of her relationship with Alice Methfessel, who was her muse, her friend and her lover. It is considered to be one of Bishop’s best poems, reflecting on the period of estrangement, during which Alice Methfessel was engaged to be married, which came as a shock to Bishop. Working on this poem, in the form of a villanelle, which is a poem consisting of nineteen lines with only two rhymes, helped Bishop in these distressed times, only to bring them back together in their unconventional “happily ever after” story. The poem ...

On Feburary 10, 2011, I attended the “Elizabeth Bishop in Words and Music” classical concert, wherein three composers wrote new music to celebrate the life of the poet Elizabeth Bishop. I also saw the “Mozart’s Jupiter” concert on March 24, 2011, both of them taking place at the Rebecca Cohn Auditorium in the Dalhousie Arts Centre in Halifax, which was a beautiful location, full of many different sculptures and interesting architecture. The Symphony Nova Scotia provided an excellent presentation; their musicianship was full of commitment and passion, and their discipline under the baton of the conductor was incredible ...