American Literature / Unit 17 AML 1612 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Elizabeth Bishop and the Traveling Eye
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The idea
Bishop's father died in her infancy and her mother was institutionalized, and the legacy he left funded a life of travel: Key West, then Brazil for sixteen years, then Harvard. The witness praises her crystalline intelligence, remote landscapes and metaphors of travel.
In practice
A life of travel, and poems of exact looking.
Where people slip
She was never a prolific poet.
Your place on the trail
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