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Elizabeth BishopLinguistic Intelligence
  • Jaemin Shin
  • 7-E

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Who is Elizabeth?
  • (1911 - 1979)
  • Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester,
    Massachusetts in 1911, but spent part of her
    childhood with her Canadian grandparents after
    her father's death and mother's hospitalization.
  • She became a famous poet after, and she wrote
    over 50 poems.

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One Art
  • The art of losing isn't hard to master
  • so many things seem filled with the intent
  • to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
  • Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
  • of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
  • The art of losing isn't hard to master.
  • Then practice losing farther, losing faster
  • places, and names, and where it was you meant
  • to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
  • I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
  • next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
  • The art of losing isn't hard to master.
  • I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
  • some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
  • I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

The concept of loss has been flavored by the
poets, where they have permanently bemoaned the
loss of beauty, youth, and love. Bishop is a poet
whom is wry, funny, flippant, and not to sound
weepy-eyed. The repetition line, the art of
losing isnt hard to master makes you wonder how
far and fast shes had to lose. We can see there
are a lot of rhyming words, such as the last
words of the second sentence, repetition of last
line, and etc. This poem includes many metaphors,
such as loved houses, or losing a lot of places.
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Lullaby For The Cat
  • Minnow, go to sleep and dream,
  • Close your great big eyes
  • Round your bed Events prepare
  • The pleasantest surprise.
  • Darling Minnow, drop that frown,
  • Just cooperate,
  • Not a kitten shall be drowned
  • In the Marxist State.
  • Joy and Love will both be yours,
  • Minnow, don't be glum.
  • Happy days are coming soon--
  • Sleep, and let them come...

This poem described the cats emotions well, and
gives an idea of how people are talking towards
the cat. In addition to, it illustrates some
sorrowful emotions of the cat. The poem seems to
have a rhythm, and it also includes words that
are made-up. For example, to be attractive, the
poet, Elizabeth Bishop wrote pleasantest. It is
curious if she had written her sentiments into
the poem, where she can write her feelings as the
cat does. When the poet has a hard time living,
such as losing her father, she may just want to
sleep for another today.
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Insomnia
  • The moon in the bureau mirror
  • looks out a million miles
  • (and perhaps with pride, at herself,
  • but she never, never smiles)
  • far and away beyond sleep, or
  • perhaps she's a daytime sleeper.
  • By the Universe deserted,
  • she'd tell it to go to hell,
  • and she'd find a body of water,
  • or a mirror, on which to dwell.
  • So wrap up care in a cobweb
  • and drop it down the well
  • into that world inverted
  • where left is always right,
  • where the shadows are really the body,
  • where we stay awake all night,
  • where the heavens are shallow as the sea

The poem Insomnia has a lot of descriptions, and
the words she use is fresh and unique. She can
turn her mundane topic into something
unforgettable. We are only at the end we
understand the depth of feeling behind her
mystical images. There is an actual research that
Elizabeth Bishop is a lesbian, and she wrote her
poem based on a girl. If we look at the last 6
lines, it describes we which would be according
to Bishop and her lover, describing how much they
are meaning to each other.
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Bibiliography
  • http//famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/elizabeth_bis
    hop
  • http//www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Elizabeth_Bi
    shop/51
  • http//bribelleritaly.blogspot.com/2008/09/elizabe
    th-bishops-insomnia.html
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