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POETIC DEVICES AND THE MAGIC OF ELIZABETH BISHOP
BY DE VO N F
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ELIZABETH BISHOP
1911 –1979
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CHARACTERISTICS OF BISHOPS WORK• great attention to detail• interest in nature• Empathy for creatures• surprising imagery
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SIMILEA comparison of two subjects using like or as.
She’s as sweet as candy. John sings like a flute. Laura is as light as a feather. Don is as slow as molasses in January.
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METAPHOR• A comparison or analogy stated in such a way as to
imply that one object is another one, figuratively speaking.
“She was a lone reed blowing in the wind.” “She’s a brick house” “He is a gentle giant.”
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ANTHROPOMORPHISMAttribution of human motivation,
characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.
“One seal particularly I have seen here evening after evening. He was curious about me. He was interested in music; like me a believer in total immersion, so I used to sing him Baptist hymns.” – At the Fish Houses
Watership Down novel with rabbit heroes
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REPETITIONWords or phrases that appear more than once
for added emphasis, effect, or emotion
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.” –Robert Frost
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THE FISH
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Initial Reactions?
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Can you pick out any poetic devices that Bishop used?
Does any line in the power stand out to you?
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“Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper”
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Old Caribbean Jew Fish Peeling Brown Wallpaper
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“I thought of the course white fleshPacked in like feathers…and the pink
swim-bladderlike a big peony.”
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“I looked into his big eyes
which were far larger than mine
but shallower, and yellowed,
the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoilseen through the
lensesof old scratched
isinglass.”
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“He hung a grunting weight,battered and venerableand homely.”
“Like medals with their ribbonsfrayed and wavering,a five-haired beard of wisdomtrailing from his aching jaw.”
-”It was more like the tippingof an object toward the light.I admired his sullen face,the mechanism of his jaw…
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I stared and staredand victory filled up
the little rented boat,from the pool of bilgewhere oil had spread a
rainbowaround the rusted engine
to the bailer rusted orange,the sun-cracked thwarts,
the oarlocks on their strings,
the gunnels--until everything
was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
And I let the fish go.
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MATCH THAT FIGURE OF SPEECH1. The sea is … 2. As softly as …
3. On stumps and dead trees the charring…
4. For two weeks or more…
5. The beach…
A. Falling stars come to their ends at a point in the sky.
B. The trees hesitated; the little leaves waited…
C. ..hisses like fat
D. “all a case of knives”
F. Is like black velvet.
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Thank you!
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Wallpaper: http://www.tenement.org/slideshows/collections_2.htmlCaribbean Jew Fish :
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/marine-life-ecosystems/279631-dangerous-predators-personal-space-divers.html
Anatomy of a Fish: http://vet.osu.edu/assets/courses/vm608/anatomy/anatomy.htmlB/W Fish: http://www.glossop-sea-angling club.co.uk/pages/swimbladderproblemspage.htmlPeony: http://pattihaskins.wordpress.com/category/plant-life/Fish Eye: http://www.oceanwideimages.com/search.asp?s=fish+eyes Tin Foil: http://www.pixmac.com/picture/tinfoil/000010091711 Hooked Fish: http://www.ticotimes.net/fishingforum/forum.cfm?icat=3Dictionary.comElizabeth Bishop: http://tintin1.livejournal.comSilhouette Fish:
http://www.woodworkersworkshop.com/resources/index.php?search=FREE%20SILHOUETTES&page=11Fisherman: http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum/general-photos/112381-wade-fisherman-silhouette.htmlMicroscope: http://showboatentertainment.com/http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-2/http://chawedrosin.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-by-robert-frost/http://www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=655925Feather: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/981696Seal: http://wattsmith.wordpress.com/Rabbit: http://www.paulfidler.com/books/short_list.htmBishop, Elizabeth. The Complete Poems. Ed. Farrar, Staus and Giroux. New York, New York.
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